Putatan
Putatan port and ships, live
Kota Kinabalu handles cargo: the World Port Index lists container berths, ramps for roll-on, roll-off ships and general cargo berths.
The harbour
The Index rates Kota Kinabalu a medium-sized natural harbour on the coast. It takes ships up to 294 m long, through a channel at least 7.9 m deep. Ice can restrict the way in.
Harbours within 10 km
- Kota Kinabalu6 km from the centreMedium-sized harbour · counted on the page for Kota Kinabalu
What the live map can see
In 24 hours of AIS recorded Oct 12 – 19, the map heard no ship within 10 km of Kota Kinabalu: the receivers TAKIP draws on don’t reach here, so its ships won’t show.
Good to know
- NGA’s World Port Index rates a harbour by its area, facilities and wharf space when it was last surveyed, not by its traffic, so a busy terminal can be rated small. Where it doesn’t know about a facility it says so, and only what it marks as there is listed here.
- AIS is heard by receivers on shore, so coverage follows where they are: ships far out at sea, or off coasts without one, don’t show. Warships and some others switch it off, and a ship’s type and destination are typed in by its crew.
- Harbours from NGA’s World Port Index (Pub. 150), downloaded on Oct 19, 2026. The major ports and chokepoints are the map’s own reference list.
How the layers work, where their data comes from and what they can’t tell you: Live ship tracker, Shipping chokepoints