Whakatane Port (port code: NZWHK) is a medium-sized river port in the eastern Bay of Plenty Region in the North Island of New Zealand. It is situated at the mouth of the Whakatane River, approximately 90 kilometers east of Tauranga and 89 kilometers north-east of Rotorua.
Coastal trading, including scows and steamships – notably the Northern Steamship Company service, which ran until 1959, used the port as a port of call. Today it primarily services charter vessels, commercial & recreational fishing vessels. The depth of water over the Whakatāne River entrance has been a limiting factor to the development of better port facilities, but it is generally held that a training wall along the western edge of the entrance would allow greater depths and safer crossings.
The types of vessels regularly calling at this port are fishing vessels, accounting for about 57%; and SAR, taking up around 14%. The maximum length of the vessels recorded to having entered this port is 22 meters.
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