Victoria, Seychelles
Port · SCVIC · -4.62°, 55.46° · Mineral Products, Prepared Foodstuffs & Beverages, Animal & Animal Products
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 8
- vessel calls / yr
- 164
About the port
The World Port Index lists Victoria as a very small coastal natural harbour with fair shelter.
Listed depths: 2 m in the channel, 14 m at the anchorage, 9 m at the cargo pier and 6 m at the oil terminal, with a mean rise of tide of 2 m.
Entry can be restricted by swell and other conditions.
Pilotage is compulsory.
Repair facilities are rated none.
Victoria is a first port of entry.
PortWatch estimates 216 port calls at Victoria from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 18 a month, 4% fewer than in the twelve months before.
By vessel type, general cargo ships 46%, container ships 33% and tankers 17% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 670 thousand t imported and 215 thousand t exported.
The busiest month was May 2026 (30 calls) and the quietest Oct 2025 (12).
What is reported near this port
8 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Victoria, the earliest issued in 2000; the most common types are incidents (6), other (1) and piracy (1).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Victoria 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: 16 calls, 7 thousand t in, 22 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.
Port characteristics · World Port Index
- harbour
- very small coastal natural
- shelter
- fair
- water body
- Indian Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA VIII
- depths
- channel 2 m · anchorage 14 m · cargo pier 9 m · oil terminal 6 m
- mean rise of tide
- 2 m
- entrance restricted by
- other, swell; not ice, tide
- overhead limits
- yes
- turning area
- yes
- good holding ground
- yes
- pilotage
- advisable, compulsory
- tugs
- assistance
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- anchorage, beach mooring, wharves
- cranes
- fixed
- services
- garbage disposal, longshore labour, medical; not dirty ballast reception
- supplies
- deck stores, diesel, engine stores, fuel oil, water
- repairs
- none
- first port of entry
- yes
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 171 (Enroute) - East Africa and the South Indian Ocean
- chart
- 61542
World Port Index entry Victoria (No. 47220), matched by name 0.8 nm from PortWatch's position for this port. 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 Seychelles's maritime trade through this port (PortWatch): imports 100%, exports 100%.
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.