Tsuruga, Japan
Port · JPTRG · 35.67°, 136.07° · Mineral Products, Wood & Wood Products, Vegetable Products
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 6
- vessel calls / yr
- 529
About the port
The World Port Index lists Tsuruga as a small coastal breakwater harbour with good shelter.
Listed depths: 15 m in the channel, 20 m at the anchorage, 11 m at the cargo pier and 16 m at the oil terminal.
Entry can be restricted by tide, swell and other conditions.
Largest vessel listed: beam 54 m and draft 11 m.
Pilotage is not compulsory but is advisable.
Repair facilities are rated limited, with a small drydock.
Tsuruga is a first port of entry.
PortWatch estimates 468 port calls at Tsuruga from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 39 a month, 18% fewer than in the twelve months before.
By vessel type, ro-ro vessels 27%, container ships 25% and dry bulk carriers 22% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 2.6 million t imported and 212 thousand t exported.
The busiest month was Feb 2026 (57 calls) and the quietest Aug 2026 (12).
What is reported near this port
6 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Tsuruga, the earliest issued in 2000; the most common types are incidents (3), quakes (2) and nav aids (1).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Tsuruga 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: 12 calls, 128 thousand t in, 916 t out
Warnings within 60 nm, by year of issue
In force within 60 nm · 0
Nothing in force within 60 nm right now.
Port characteristics · World Port Index
- harbour
- small coastal breakwater
- shelter
- good
- water body
- Sea of Japan; North Pacific Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI
- depths
- channel 15 m · anchorage 20 m · cargo pier 11 m · oil terminal 16 m
- largest vessel
- beam 54 m · draft 11 m
- entrance restricted by
- other, swell, tide; not ice
- pilotage
- advisable; not compulsory
- tugs
- assistance
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- wharves
- cranes
- fixed, mobile
- services
- dirty ballast reception, longshore labour, medical
- supplies
- diesel, fuel oil, provisions, water
- repairs
- limited
- drydock
- small
- marine railway
- small
- first port of entry
- yes
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 159 (Enroute) - Japan - Volume II
- chart
- 95280
World Port Index entry Tsuruga Ko (No. 61810), 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 0.4%, exports 0.1%.
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.