Waingapu, Indonesia
Port · -9.64°, 120.25° · Mineral Products, Prepared Foodstuffs & Beverages, Chemical & Allied Industries
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 9
- vessel calls / yr
- 158
About the port
The World Port Index lists Waingapu as a very small open roadstead harbour with excellent shelter.
Listed depths: 13 m in the channel, 23 m at the anchorage, 11 m at the cargo pier and 8 m at the oil terminal, with a mean rise of tide of 2 m.
Pilotage is not compulsory.
Repair facilities are rated none.
PortWatch estimates 142 port calls at Waingapu from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 12 a month, 14% fewer than in the twelve months before.
By vessel type, tankers 70% and general cargo ships 30% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 92 thousand t imported and 15 thousand t exported.
The busiest month was Nov 2025 (14 calls) and the quietest Dec 2025 (10).
What is reported near this port
9 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Waingapu, the earliest issued in 1997; the most common types are quakes (8) and nav aids (1).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Waingapu 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: 13 calls, 15 thousand t in, 888 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 open roadstead
- shelter
- excellent
- water body
- Savu Sea; Indian Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI
- depths
- channel 13 m · anchorage 23 m · cargo pier 11 m · oil terminal 8 m
- mean rise of tide
- 2 m
- entrance restricted by
- not other
- overhead limits
- no
- good holding ground
- yes
- pilotage
- not compulsory
- tugs
- not assistance, salvage
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- anchorage
- cranes
- not fixed, floating, mobile
- services
- dirty ballast reception, garbage disposal, longshore labour, medical
- supplies
- diesel, fuel oil, provisions, water
- repairs
- none
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 163 (Enroute) - Borneo Jawa Sulawesi and Nusa Tenggara
World Port Index entry Waingapu (No. 51350), matched by name 2 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 Indonesia's maritime trade through this port (PortWatch): imports 0.1%, exports 0.0%.
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.