Toamasina, Madagascar
Port · MGTOA · -18.16°, 49.43° · Mineral Products, Vegetable Products, Prepared Foodstuffs & Beverages
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 2
- vessel calls / yr
- 398
About the port
The World Port Index lists Toamasina as a small coastal breakwater harbour with good shelter.
Listed depths: 9 m in the channel, 14 m at the anchorage, 5 m at the cargo pier and 13 m at the oil terminal, with a mean rise of tide of 1 m.
Entry can be restricted by tide, swell and other conditions.
Pilotage is compulsory.
Repair facilities are rated limited.
Toamasina is a first port of entry.
PortWatch estimates 482 port calls at Toamasina from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 40 a month, close to the twelve months before.
By vessel type, container ships 38%, general cargo ships 20% and tankers 20% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 4.8 million t imported and 376 thousand t exported.
The busiest month was Nov 2025 (48 calls) and the quietest Mar 2026 (32).
What is reported near this port
2 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Toamasina, the earliest issued in 2008; the most common types are incidents (1) and derelicts (1).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Toamasina is not necessarily about the port; collection is incomplete between 2024-05 and 2026-08-17.
Port calls per month · IMF PortWatch estimates
Oct 2024 – Sep 2026 (last bar: month in progress) · last complete month Aug 2026: 40 calls, 361 thousand t in, 25 thousand t out
Warnings within 60 nm, by year of issue
In force within 60 nm · 0
Nothing in force within 60 nm right now.
Disruption events listing this port · IMF PortWatch
- EMNATI-22 · tropical cyclone · red alert · 2022-02-16 to 2022-02-24 — Tropical Storm (maximum wind speed of 204 km/h)
PortWatch lists the ports inside each event's affected area; being listed does not mean the port was damaged or closed.
Port characteristics · World Port Index
- harbour
- small coastal breakwater
- shelter
- good
- water body
- Indian Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA VII
- depths
- channel 9 m · anchorage 14 m · cargo pier 5 m · oil terminal 13 m
- mean rise of tide
- 1 m
- entrance restricted by
- other, swell, tide; not ice
- good holding ground
- yes
- pilotage
- advisable, compulsory
- tugs
- assistance, salvage
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- anchorage, wharves
- cranes
- fixed, floating, mobile
- services
- garbage disposal, longshore labour, medical; not dirty ballast reception
- supplies
- diesel, fuel oil, provisions, water
- repairs
- limited
- marine railway
- medium
- first port of entry
- yes
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 171 (Enroute) - East Africa and the South Indian Ocean
- chart
- 61538
World Port Index entry Toamasina (No. 47540), matched by UN/LOCODE. NGA Publication 150 (U.S. government work). The index describes the port as last surveyed for the publication; it is not a substitute for Sailing Directions or port authority information.
Share of Madagascar's maritime trade through this port (PortWatch): imports 90%, exports 21%.
Chokepoint and port data: IMF PortWatch (portwatch.imf.org) — IMF and the University of Oxford, via the UN Global Platform. Not for navigation — follow official NAVAREA / coastal broadcasts and port authority notices.