Yeysk, Russian Federation
Port · RUYEY · 46.73°, 38.27° · Mineral Products, Vegetable Products, Prepared Foodstuffs & Beverages
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 9
- vessel calls / yr
- 834
About the port
The World Port Index lists Yeysk as a very small coastal breakwater harbour with good shelter.
Listed depths: 3 m in the channel, 3 m at the anchorage, 3 m at the cargo pier and 3 m at the oil terminal.
Entry can be restricted by ice and other conditions.
Pilotage is compulsory.
Repair facilities are rated limited.
PortWatch estimates 398 port calls at Yeysk from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 33 a month, 45% fewer than in the twelve months before.
By vessel type, general cargo ships 79%, tankers 19% and dry bulk carriers 2% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 22 thousand t imported and 835 thousand t exported.
The busiest month was Nov 2025 (60 calls) and the quietest Aug 2026 (0).
What is reported near this port
9 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Yeysk, the earliest issued in 2003; the most common types are other (3), exercises (2) and surveys (2).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Yeysk 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: 0 calls, 0 t in, 0 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 breakwater
- shelter
- good
- water body
- Sea of Azov; Black Sea; North Atlantic Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA III
- depths
- channel 3 m · anchorage 3 m · cargo pier 3 m · oil terminal 3 m
- entrance restricted by
- ice, other; not swell, tide
- pilotage
- advisable, compulsory
- tugs
- assistance, salvage
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- wharves
- cranes
- fixed, floating, mobile
- services
- longshore labour, medical; not dirty ballast reception
- supplies
- provisions; not deck stores, diesel, engine stores, fuel oil
- repairs
- limited
- first port of entry
- no
- sailing directions
- Admiralty Sailing Directions - NP24 - Black Sea and Sea of Azov Pilot (United Kingdom Hydrographic Office)
World Port Index entry Yeysk (No. 44090), 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 0.2%, exports 0.4%.
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.