Wakamatsu (JPWAM)

Wakamatsu is part of the larger Kitakyushu Port complex. Wakamatsu has merged traffic figures with Hibikinada port and is now controlled by the Kitakyushu Seaport and Airport Bureau. (See also Hibikinada port information). Commodities handled include steel products, cement, aggregates, limestone, scrap metal, LPG and chemical products.

Summer.

Wakamatsu is situated on the N coast of Kyushu facing the Kanmon Strait which separates Kyushu and Honshu.

LOA 160m, beam 25.5m, draught 8.5m, 24,228DWT.

Approx 11,300,000t of cargo, 51,000TEU and 6,000 vessels merged traffic figure with Hibikinada handled annually.

Anchorage Areas No 5 and 6 are designated as dangerous cargo anchorages.

Draught limitation in the channel is 9.14-10.0m (Kanmon Channel). The main harbour is approached from Kanmon Kaikyo through Wakamatsu Fairway, a buoyed dredged channel with depths of 10.0m in its outer part, which comprises all the waters inward of the fairway. The fairway is entered between Lightbuoys No 1 and 2 (port hand and starboard hand) which are moored 0.5nm SW of Funa Se, with a least depth of 7.2m, which lies on the SW side of Kanmon Fairway. It is marked close N by Kanmon Passage No 4 Lightbuoy (starboard hand).

JP 135, 179, 201, 1101, 1265. BA 2347, 3480. Admiralty Pilot NP42B, NP286(6).

1010-1021 Summer. 1025-1026 Winter.

Compulsory. Harbour pilots and Inland Sea pilots are available at the pilot station or quarantine anchorage. ..... Pilots stations: Latitude Longitude Mutsure 33°59.3'N 130°53.0'E Hesaki 33°57.0'N 131°00.0'E

The Wakato Ohashi Suspension Bridge restricts vessel airdraught to 37m.

Range max 2.5m; min 0.34m.

There are 2 tugs, 1 x 2,500hp and 1 x 1,300hp.

Prevailing winds: SW'ly.

WAKAMATSU, KYUSHU 33°54.20'N 130°48.57'E UNCTAD LOCODE: JP WAM For details see: KANMON KAIKYO PILOT REQUIREMENTS ________________________________________________________________________________ ___________

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WEEKLY CORRECTIONS FROM UKHO NtM WEEK 30/23 Japan Coast Guard Publication 303/19, (RSDRA2019000079322), 30/23

VHF: Ch 16 and 12.

See Country information.

See Country information.

See Country information for radio pratique. Free pratique: Formalities will be carried out at the quarantine anchorage, 105° x 2,800m from Mutsure Lighthouse.