Komatsushima (JPKOM)

Tokushima-Komatsushima is the main port on the E coast of Shikoku. The port handles timber as the raw materials for the paper manufacturing industry where the time services of international container seaway connecting with Pusan as a site of foreign trade for Tokushima Prefecture.

Summer.

Komatsushima is located on the NE coastline of Shikoku Island in Tokushima Prefecture.

LOA 290m, beam 37.5m, draught 12m, 64,455DWT.

Approx 8,000,000t of cargo, 22,000TEU and 5,000 vessels handled annually.

The anchorage basin is protected by 1,160m of breakwater with depths ranging from 4.0-9.0m, on a sand or clay bottom. At the time of a typhoon, sheltered anchorage can be obtained to the SW of Wadano Hana in depths from 7.0-8.0m, mud; however care is needed as there are seaweed beds and fixed fishing nets off the W side of Wadano Hana. Quarantine anchorage: Mainly at Komatsushima in depths between 12.9m and 13.2m, mud. Dangerous cargo anchorage: Available in Komatsushima Ku Section 2, contact harbour authorities.

The port has direct access from W side of Kii Suido and port areas entered through separate entrance channels. Tokushima: A least depth of 10.1m at the outer end of the entrance channel. Komatsushima: A least depth of 8.9m at the outer end of the entrance channel leading to Komatsushima Ku Section 1 . In the fairway leading to Komatsushima Ku Section 3 a least depth of 13.1m.

JP106, JP77, BA 2347. Japanese chart W1126. Admiralty Pilot NP42B, NP286(6).

1025.

Not compulsory for Shinko section 1 but harbour pilots are available at the outer anchorage, if required. Pilotage is compulsory for Tokushima Tsuda for vessels over 5,000DWT and for Kanaiso section 3 for vessels over 8.5m draught. Pilots board 34°01.5'N 134°38.0'E or in bad weather No 3 Area inside the harbour.

The port limits extend NNE from Wada-on-Hana to the mouth of the Yoshino Kawa, 4nm NNW and encloses all port areas.

Entry or sailing after sunset is prohibited except in an emergency. Vertical clearances: Tokushima: Cable spans Shinmachi Kawa, vertical clearance 50m. Suehiro Bridge, vertical clearance 21m. Komatsushima: Overhead cable spans N entrance between E breakwater and the breakwater close N, vertical clearance 15m. Bridge spans the Kandase Kawa, vertical clearance 4.9m.

Range 1.3m (spring), 0.3m (neaps). There is very little current, the max being 0.5kt.

There are 2 tugs available; 1 x 3,000hp, 1 x 2,400hp.

Prevailing winds: NW'ly and SE'ly.

KOMATSUSHIMA, INCLUDING TOKUSHIMA, SHIKOKU 34°00.49'N 134°37.04'E UNCTAD LOCODE: JP KOM ________________________________________________________________________________ ___________

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WEEKLY CORRECTIONS FROM UKHO NtM WEEK 16/25 Japan Coast Guard Publication 303/24, (RSDRA2025000051078), 16/25

VHF: Call "Komatsushima Coastn Guard" on Ch 16, 12. Pilot: Tel: +81 88 532 4789.

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See Country information for radio pratique. Free Pratique: Granted in the quarantine anchorage in (34°00.93'N 134°37.15'E) but limited to one vessel at a time. If occupied granted in Wakayama-Shimotsu Ko Anchorage (34°07.4'N 135°06.5'E).