Port profile · CNYTG
Yantai
Yantai is a small coastal harbour behind a breakwater on the Yellow Sea, in China. Its UN/LOCODE is CNYTG. Pilotage is compulsory and tugs are available. Yantai offers diesel, provisions, ship stores, fresh water and major repairs. Vessel Hunter tracks its live arrivals and the vessels heading its way.
Port profile
Live at Yantai
What members see for Yantai, updated as vessels move.
Heading here
MembersEvery vessel bound for Yantai, with ETA, owner, operator and the contact who decides.
In port now
MembersThe vessels alongside or at anchor at Yantai right now, and who runs them.
Arrival profile
MembersHow many vessels arrive at Yantai day by day over the next two weeks, by type.
Port calls and time in port
MembersRecent calls at Yantai and how long each vessel stayed.
Services and supplies
What Yantai offers a visiting ship, as the port index records it. Lines the index does not state are left out.
Supplies
- Diesel
- Yes
- Fresh water
- Yes
- Provisions
- Yes
- Deck stores
- Yes
- Engine stores
- Yes
Repair
- Ship repairs
- Major
- Slipway
- Medium
Harbour
- Pilotage
- Compulsory
- Tugs
- Yes
- Stevedores
- Yes
- Mobile cranes
- Yes
Waste and health
- Garbage reception
- Yes
- Dirty ballast reception
- Yes
- Medical facilities
- Yes
Approach and berths
Shelter, entrance, clearance and cargo berths at Yantai, 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
- Good
- Entrance restrictions
- Tide, ice, other
- Pilotage available
- Yes
- Pilotage advisable
- Yes
- Tug assistance
- Yes
- ETA message required
- Yes
Entry
- Free pratique
- Yes
- Sanitation inspection
- Yes
Cargo and berths
- Wharves
- Yes
Connections
- Airport nearby
- Yes
- Rail connection
- Yes
Port state control at Yantai
Inspections of foreign ships carried out at Yantai, counted per year.
| Year | Inspections | Detentions | Detention rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 so far | 2 | 1 | 50% |
| 2025 | 4 | 1 | 25% |
| 2024 | 5 | 0 | 0% |
Over the last two years an inspection here found 9.9 deficiencies on average.
See which ships were inspected and detained at Yantai, and what was found.
Ports near Yantai
Other China ports on the same stretch of coast.
- YantaiChina · CNYAT
- PenglaiChina · CNPLI
- Weihai PtChina · CNWEG
- WeihaiChina · CNWEI
- LongkouChina · CNLKU
- LushunChina · CNLSH
- DalianChina · CNDAL
- DalianChina · CNDLC
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Questions about Yantai
What is the UN/LOCODE of Yantai?
The UN/LOCODE of Yantai is CNYTG.
Is pilotage compulsory in Yantai?
Yes. The nautical port index lists pilotage in Yantai as compulsory.
Can ships take bunkers in Yantai?
Yes. Yantai offers diesel, according to the nautical port index.
How many port state control inspections are there in Yantai?
4 port state control inspections were recorded in Yantai in 2025, and 1 of them ended in a detention.
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