Port

Lake Charles

Name: Lake Charles
Address: USA

USA

USLCH

Technical Data

Port Specifications

UNLOCODE: USLCH
Country: 🇺🇸 USA

Conditions

Current Weather

Location

Coordinates

30.2167°N, 93.2500°W

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Live Data

Port Congestion

Waiting Vessels

Avg Wait Time

At Anchorage

Berth Occupancy

--N/A

30-Day Berth Occupancy Trend

<30%

30-70%

>70%

Waiting Vessels Trend

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

38 h

P90 dwell

3.1 d

long-tail wait

0 loaded 1 dischargedover 11 completed calls

Recent calls

DIAMOND QUEEN
in port
V TAURUS
in port
AGIA DYNAMI
in port
AGIA DYNAMI
in port
SPAARNEGRACHT
· 9 h
BAO RUI LING
· 3 h
TAO STAR
· 36 h
BERGE SNAEFELL
· 3.1 d
SAGUARO
in port
AAL GALVESTON
· 26 h
SAGUARO
in port
INDUSTRIAL SONG
· 38 h
CROWN TRADER
· 2.2 d
SAGUARO
in port
SAGUARO
in port
CHIPOLBROK MOON
· 44 h
SAGUARO
in port
KANG HONG
in port
SAGUARO
in port
FUTURE
· 4.4 d
STRATEGIC SYNERGY
· 13 h
STRATEGIC SYNERGY
in port
STRATEGIC SYNERGY
in port
PIETERSGRACHT
· 2.1 d
BBC RHEIDERLAND
in port
BBC RHEIDERLAND
in port
BBC RHEIDERLAND
in port

Expected arrivals

3 inbound

Vessels underway broadcasting a destination that resolves to this port, closest first. Distance is the real sea route (around land and through canals). The computed ETA is steaming time at the vessel’s passage speed, and carries no allowance for a berth queue. The crew’s own reported ETA is shown alongside for comparison.

Vessel	Type	Distance	Speed	Off port	Crew ETA
NORSE OMISHIMA	Bulk Carrier	0 nm	7.4 kn	27 Aug	26 Aug
HSL BUNBURY	Bulk Carrier	1765 nm	12.5 kn	2 Sept	2 Sept
STRATEGIC SAVANNAH	Bulk Carrier	~4105 nm	12.6 kn	—	15 Sept

Risk & quality

Port risk & quality

1.5/ 10

Low exposure

A coverage-weighted blend of recorded Port-State-Control detentions, marine casualties and live congestion at Lake Charles. Higher means more risk exposure for a ship calling here — it is a count of recorded events, not a judgement of the port's management.

Built from 67% of the three signals.

PSC detentions

2.5/ 10

15 detentions

Marine casualties

—

no data in our coverage

Congestion

0.0/ 10

Method. Each signal is normalised to 0–10 against an empirical cap, then blended weighting safety (detentions 0.40, casualties 0.35) above operational congestion (0.25). A port is scored only on the signals it has data for, and the weights renormalise — a missing signal is never credited as a safe 0.

Coverage. PSC and casualty data here is regional (US, UK, Canada), so most ports show only congestion and carry a low-confidence flag. Detention/casualty counts come from a country-scoped name match (≈60% of US detentions resolve); unmatched records are dropped, not force-fit.

Detention and casualty signals are screened against open port-state-control and marine-casualty records, combined with our own AIS-derived congestion. Updated Aug 27, 2026.

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Vessel

Type

Distance

Speed

Off port

Crew ETA

NORSE OMISHIMA

Bulk Carrier

0 nm

7.4 kn

27 Aug

26 Aug

HSL BUNBURY

Bulk Carrier

1765 nm

12.5 kn

2 Sept

STRATEGIC SAVANNAH

Bulk Carrier

~4105 nm

12.6 kn

—

15 Sept