Yantai, China
Port · CNYAT · 37.56°, 121.41° · Mineral Products, Machinery & Electrical Equipment, Metals
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 3
- vessel calls / yr
- 1,925
About the port
The World Port Index lists Yantai as a small coastal breakwater harbour with good shelter.
Listed depths: 14 m in the channel, 16 m at the anchorage and 14 m at the cargo pier, with a mean rise of tide of 2 m.
Entry can be restricted by tide, ice and other conditions.
Pilotage is compulsory.
Repair facilities are rated major.
PortWatch estimates 1,888 port calls at Yantai from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 157 a month, 4% more than in the twelve months before.
By vessel type, container ships 31%, dry bulk carriers 28% and general cargo ships 23% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 17 million t imported and 12 million t exported.
The busiest month was Jul 2026 (177 calls) and the quietest May 2026 (132).
What is reported near this port
3 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Yantai, the earliest issued in 2005; the most common types are incidents (2) and surveys (1).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Yantai 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: 161 calls, 1.3 million t in, 580 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
- small coastal breakwater
- shelter
- good
- water body
- Yellow Sea; North Pacific Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI
- depths
- channel 14 m · anchorage 16 m · cargo pier 14 m
- mean rise of tide
- 2 m
- entrance restricted by
- ice, other, tide
- pilotage
- advisable, compulsory
- tugs
- assistance
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- wharves
- cranes
- mobile
- services
- dirty ballast reception, garbage disposal, longshore labour, medical
- supplies
- deck stores, diesel, engine stores, provisions, water
- repairs
- major
- marine railway
- medium
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 157 (Enroute) - Coasts of Korea and China
- chart
- 94420
World Port Index entry Yantai (No. 60160), matched by name 1.9 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 China's maritime trade through this port (PortWatch): imports 0.5%, exports 0.3%.
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.