Port profile · KWKWI
Kuwait
Kuwait is a very small natural coastal harbour on the Persian Gulf, in Kuwait. Its UN/LOCODE is KWKWI. Pilotage is compulsory and tugs are available. Kuwait offers fresh water and a medium dry dock. Vessel Hunter tracks its live arrivals and the vessels heading its way.
Port profile
Live at Kuwait
What members see for Kuwait, updated as vessels move.
Heading here
MembersEvery vessel bound for Kuwait, with ETA, owner, operator and the contact who decides.
In port now
MembersThe vessels alongside or at anchor at Kuwait right now, and who runs them.
Arrival profile
MembersHow many vessels arrive at Kuwait day by day over the next two weeks, by type.
Port calls and time in port
MembersRecent calls at Kuwait and how long each vessel stayed.
Services and supplies
What Kuwait offers a visiting ship, as the port index records it. Lines the index does not state are left out.
Supplies
- Fresh water
- Yes
Repair
- Ship repairs
- Limited
- Dry dock
- Medium
Harbour
- Pilotage
- Compulsory
- Tugs
- Yes
- Stevedores
- Yes
- Mobile cranes
- Yes
- Floating cranes
- Yes
Waste and health
- Garbage reception
- No
- Dirty ballast reception
- No
- Medical facilities
- Yes
Approach and berths
Shelter, entrance, clearance and cargo berths at Kuwait, 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, other
- Pilotage available
- Yes
- Pilotage advisable
- Yes
- Tug assistance
- Yes
- ETA message required
- Yes
- Good holding ground
- Yes
- Turning area
- Yes
Entry
- Free pratique
- Yes
Cargo and berths
- Wharves
- Yes
- Med mooring
- Yes
- Fixed cranes
- Yes
Connections
- Rail connection
- Yes
Ports near Kuwait
Other Kuwait ports on the same stretch of coast.
- DohaKuwait · KWDOH
- Mina Al AhmadiKuwait · KWMEA
- ShuaibaKuwait · KWSAA
- Mina Abd AllahKuwait · KWMIB
- Mina SaudKuwait · KWMIS
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Questions about Kuwait
What is the UN/LOCODE of Kuwait?
The UN/LOCODE of Kuwait is KWKWI.
Is pilotage compulsory in Kuwait?
Yes. The nautical port index lists pilotage in Kuwait as compulsory.
Does Kuwait have a dry dock?
Yes. Kuwait has a medium dry dock and limited ship repairs.
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