Kobe
JPUKBJapanEast Asia Reefer
Kobe (JPUKB) is a sea port in Japan. What follows is what an exporter checks before booking: how the port handles cargo, what it requires on arrival, and who works there.
Agri-food handling
- Reefer traffic
- Yes
- First port of entry
- Yes
- Quarantine and pratique
- Yes
Providers near Kobe
Storage, freight, customs brokers, inspection and treatment providers listed in Kobe.
Storage
See allBringing goods into Japan
Full market requirements- MEAT-JP — Australian Government export health certificate for meat to Japan (issued via DAFF EXDOC per MICOR importing-country requirements)DAFF (via EXDOC)
- Establishment listing: DAFF export-registered establishments / approved arrangement (Export Control Act 2020)
- Beef must meet Japan's BSE / specified-risk-material (SRM) import conditions (SRM removal; Australia recognised).
- Free trade agreement certificate of origin (JAEPA)
Sources last checked 2026-06-19.
Port facts
- Harbour size
- Large
- Harbour type
- Open roadstead
- Shelter
- Good
- Channel depth
- 14 m
- Cargo pier depth
- 14 m
- Anchorage depth
- 15.5 m
- Pilotage
- Compulsory
- Tugs
- Yes
- Cranes
- fixed, mobile, floating
- Repairs
- Major
- Dry dock
- Large
- Rail connection
- Yes
- Supplies
- potable water, fuel oil
Source: NGA World Port Index (Pub 150). A row is absent where the dataset records nothing for this port.