Technical Data
Port Specifications
- UNLOCODE
- GBSHS
- Country
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Conditions
Current Weather
Location
Coordinates
51.4500°N, 0.7500°E
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Port Congestion
30-Day Berth Occupancy Trend
Waiting Vessels Trend
Port-call activity
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
- in port
- · 4 h
- · 15 h
- · 22 h
- · 45 h
- · 3.8 d
- in port
- · 10 h
- · 22 h
- · 3 h
- · 34 h
- · 14 h
- · 3 h
- in port
- · 40 h
Expected arrivals
3 inboundVessels 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 at the vessel’s passage speed. The crew’s own reported ETA is shown alongside for comparison.
| Vessel | Type | Distance | Speed | ETA (computed) | Crew ETA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BALTICBORG | Ro-Ro Cargo | 216 nm | 13.9 kn | 30 Jun | 1 Jul |
| EMS HIGHWAY | Vehicles Carrier | 415 nm | 10.5 kn | 1 Jul | 1 Jul |
| ORANJEBORG | Ro-Ro Cargo | 2414 nm | 10.3 kn | 10 Jul | 7 Jul |
Risk & quality
Port risk & quality
A coverage-weighted blend of recorded Port-State-Control detentions, marine casualties and live congestion at Sheerness. 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.
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 Jun 23, 2026.
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