General

Port

Istanbul

Name: Istanbul
Address: Turkey

Turkey

Technical Data

Port Specifications

Port Type: General
Terminals: 3
Berth Count: 37
Max Draught: 15.5 m
Country: 🇹🇷 Turkey

Conditions

Current Weather

Overview

About This Port

The Port of Istanbul is a passenger terminal for cruise liners, which is situated in the Karaköy neighborhood of the Beyoğlu district in Istanbul, Turkey. It consists of two adjoining piers, the Galata Pier and the Salıpazarı Pier, extending from the Galata Bridge on the Golden Horn to Salıpazarı on the west coast of the Bosporus. It is owned and operated by the state-owned Turkish Maritime Organization (TDİ).

Location

Coordinates

41.0167°N, 28.9667°E

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Port-call activity

Full traffic board

Arrivals, time in port and cargo operations detected from AIS — the position-inferred congestion signal, with the full dwell distribution rather than a single average.

In port now

Arrivals · 7d

Median dwell

5 h

P90 dwell

37 h

long-tail wait

Recent calls

JET X
in port
KANUNI SULTAN SULEYM
· 5 h
BURAK REIS 3
· 12 h
ENERGY Y
· 2.6 d
KANUNI SULTAN SULEYM
· 5 h
JET X
· 4 h
GOKDENIZ
· 5 h

Expected arrivals

2 inbound

Vessels underway broadcasting a destination that resolves to this port, closest first. Distance is the real sea route (around land and through canals). Off port is steaming time at the vessel’s passage speed; alongside adds the wait this port has actually kept comparable ships for. Berth waits vary far more than they average, so read the queue as typical, not promised. The crew’s own reported ETA is shown alongside for comparison.

Vessel	Type	Distance	Speed	Off port	Alongside	Crew ETA
URLA 1	Oil Products Tanker	22 nm	6.6 kn	27 Aug	28 Aug+20h	26 Aug
ELIAS	Bulk Carrier	425 nm	12.1 kn	29 Aug	30 Aug+30h	—

Network

Connectivity & hub role

73.0/ 100

Major hub68th of 350 covered ports

How central Istanbul sits in the sea-route network we cover — a connectivity score across navigable distances. A higher score means the port is navigationally close to many other well-connected ports, the maritime signature of a hub.

Directly routable to 349 other covered ports.

Best-connected ports

TRIzmit52 nm
BGRuse126 nm
BGBurgas126 nm
BGVarna163 nm
ROMidia201 nm
ROBraila201 nm
ROPort of Constanta201 nm
TRIzmir278 nm

Estimate a voyage in the route planner

Method. A connectivity score across our own route network: a port reads higher when it is navigationally close to many other well-connected ports. The score is rescaled 0–100 within the snapshot, so the single most-connected port reads 100. Distances are Suez / Panama / Malacca-aware navigable sea miles.

Coverage. The route network spans the 350 largest commercial ports, so this ranks hubs within that covered network, not against every port on earth. The number is deterministic — no confidence grade is invented. Computed Aug 27, 2026.

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Vessel

Type

Distance

Speed

Off port

Alongside

Crew ETA

URLA 1

Oil Products Tanker

22 nm

6.6 kn

27 Aug

28 Aug+20h

26 Aug

ELIAS

Bulk Carrier

425 nm

12.1 kn

29 Aug

30 Aug+30h

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