Port profile · JPAXT
Akita
Akita is a very small coastal harbour behind a breakwater on the Sea of Japan, in Japan. Its UN/LOCODE is JPAXT. Pilotage is not compulsory, tugs are available and it is a first port of entry. Akita offers fuel oil, provisions and fresh water. Vessel Hunter tracks its live arrivals and the vessels heading its way.
Port profile
Live at Akita
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Heading here
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In port now
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Arrival profile
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Port calls and time in port
MembersRecent calls at Akita and how long each vessel stayed.
Services and supplies
What Akita offers a visiting ship, as the port index records it. Lines the index does not state are left out.
Supplies
- Fuel oil
- Yes
- Fresh water
- Yes
- Provisions
- Yes
Repair
- Ship repairs
- Limited
- Slipway
- Small
Harbour
- Pilotage
- Not compulsory
- Tugs
- Yes
- Stevedores
- Yes
- Mobile cranes
- Yes
Waste and health
- Garbage reception
- Yes
- Dirty ballast reception
- No
- Medical facilities
- Yes
Largest vessel
- Length
- 236 m
- Beam
- 35 m
- Draft
- 11.8 m
Approach and berths
Shelter, entrance, clearance and cargo berths at Akita, as the nautical port index records them. Depths are not shown: the index gives them as broad bands for one point in the port, too coarse to plan a call on.
Approach
- Shelter
- Poor
- Entrance restrictions
- Tide, heavy swell, other
- Pilotage available
- Yes
- Pilotage advisable
- Yes
- Tug assistance
- Yes
- Salvage tugs
- Yes
- ETA message required
- Yes
- Good holding ground
- Yes
- Turning area
- Yes
Entry
- First port of entry
- Yes
- Free pratique
- Yes
Cargo and berths
- Wharves
- Yes
- Oil terminal
- Yes
Connections
- Airport nearby
- Yes
- Rail connection
- Yes
Ports near Akita
Other Japan ports on the same stretch of coast.
- NoshiroJapan · JPNSR
- SakataJapan · JPSKT
- AtsumiJapan · JPATM
- AomoriJapan · JPAOJ
- UchiuraJapan · JPUCR
- HachinoheJapan · JPHHE
- KesennumaJapan · JPKSN
- SendaiJapan · JPSGM
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Questions about Akita
What is the UN/LOCODE of Akita?
The UN/LOCODE of Akita is JPAXT.
Is pilotage compulsory in Akita?
No. The nautical port index lists pilotage in Akita as not compulsory.
Can ships take bunkers in Akita?
Yes. Akita offers fuel oil, according to the nautical port index.
What is the largest vessel Akita can take?
The nautical port index gives a largest vessel of 236 m long, 35 m wide, 11.8 m draft for Akita.
Is Akita a first port of entry?
Yes. Ships arriving from abroad can clear in at Akita.
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