Vysotsk, Russian Federation
Port · RUVYS · 60.60°, 28.56° · Mineral Products, Chemical & Allied Industries, Plastics, Rubber, Leather
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 1
- vessel calls / yr
- 493
About the port
The World Port Index lists Vysotsk as a small lake or canal harbour with good shelter.
Listed depths: 8 m in the channel, 14 m at the anchorage and 8 m at the cargo pier, with a mean rise of tide of 2 m.
Entry can be restricted by ice and other conditions.
Pilotage is compulsory.
Repair facilities are rated limited.
Vysotsk is a first port of entry.
PortWatch estimates 175 port calls at Vysotsk from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 15 a month, 56% more than in the twelve months before.
By vessel type, tankers 62%, dry bulk carriers 18% and general cargo ships 18% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 113 thousand t imported and 3.7 million t exported.
The busiest month was Aug 2026 (47 calls) and the quietest Sep 2025 (4).
What is reported near this port
1 warning in this archive has its reported position within 60 nm of Vysotsk, the earliest issued in 2014; the most common types are exercises (1).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Vysotsk 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: 47 calls, 62 thousand t in, 372 thousand t out
In force within 60 nm · 0
Nothing in force within 60 nm right now.
Port characteristics · World Port Index
- harbour
- small lake or canal
- shelter
- good
- water body
- Gulf of Finland; Baltic Sea; North Atlantic Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA I
- depths
- channel 8 m · anchorage 14 m · cargo pier 8 m
- mean rise of tide
- 2 m
- entrance restricted by
- ice, other; not swell, tide
- good holding ground
- yes
- pilotage
- compulsory
- tugs
- assistance
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- beach mooring, wharves
- cranes
- fixed, floating, mobile
- services
- dirty ballast reception, medical; not garbage disposal
- supplies
- fuel oil, provisions, water
- repairs
- limited
- marine railway
- small
- first port of entry
- yes
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 195 (Enroute) - Gulf of Finland and Gulf of Bothnia
- chart
- 44365
World Port Index entry Gavan Vysotsk (No. 28310), 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 Russian Federation's maritime trade through this port (PortWatch): imports 0.3%, exports 2.0%.
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.