Tokuyama, Japan
Port · JPTKY · 34.04°, 131.78° · Mineral Products, Chemical & Allied Industries, Prepared Foodstuffs & Beverages
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 5
- vessel calls / yr
- 7,272
About the port
The World Port Index lists Tokuyama as a medium open roadstead harbour with fair shelter.
Listed depths: 11 m in the channel, 16 m at the anchorage, 11 m at the cargo pier and 13 m at the oil terminal, with a mean rise of tide of 3 m.
The index lists no entrance restriction from tide, swell or ice.
Pilotage is not compulsory.
Repair facilities are rated limited, with a medium drydock.
Tokuyama is a first port of entry.
PortWatch estimates 6,376 port calls at Tokuyama from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 531 a month, 5% fewer than in the twelve months before.
By vessel type, tankers 58%, general cargo ships 20% and dry bulk carriers 16% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 13 million t imported and 5.2 million t exported.
The busiest month was Mar 2026 (564 calls) and the quietest Dec 2025 (476).
What is reported near this port
5 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Tokuyama, the earliest issued in 1997; the most common types are quakes (5).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Tokuyama 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: 547 calls, 962 thousand t in, 415 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
- HAISHEN-20 · tropical cyclone · red alert · 2020-08-31 to 2020-09-07 — Tropical Storm (maximum wind speed of 250 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
- medium open roadstead
- shelter
- fair
- water body
- Sea of Japan; North Pacific Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI
- depths
- channel 11 m · anchorage 16 m · cargo pier 11 m · oil terminal 13 m
- mean rise of tide
- 3 m
- entrance restricted by
- not ice, other, swell, tide
- pilotage
- not compulsory
- tugs
- assistance, salvage
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- wharves
- cranes
- floating
- services
- dirty ballast reception, longshore labour, medical
- supplies
- diesel, fuel oil, provisions, water
- repairs
- limited
- drydock
- medium
- marine railway
- medium
- first port of entry
- yes
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 159 (Enroute) - Japan - Volume II
- chart
- 97273
World Port Index entry Tokuyama (No. 61680), 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 Japan's maritime trade through this port (PortWatch): imports 2.0%, exports 2.1%.
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.