Technical Data
Port Specifications
- UNLOCODE
- GBBEL
- Port Type
- General
- Terminals
- 8
- Berth Count
- 40
- Max Draught
- 15.1 m
- Country
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Conditions
Current Weather
Overview
About This Port
Belfast Harbour is a major maritime hub in Belfast, Northern Ireland, handling 67% of Northern Ireland's seaborne trade and about 25% of the maritime trade of the entire island of Ireland. It is a vital gateway for raw materials, exports and consumer goods, and is also Northern Ireland's leading logistics and distribution hub.
Location
Coordinates
54.6167°N, 5.9000°W
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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.
- · 3 h
- in port
- · 5 h
- in port
- in port
- · 28 h
- · 6 h
- in port
- · 26 h
- · 17 h
- · 31 h
- · 15 h
- · 14 h
- · 4 h
- · 7 h
- · 3 h
- · 2 h
- · 4 h
- in port
- · 3 h
- · 3 h
- · 3.2 d
- · 4.4 d
- · 2 h
- · 21 h
- · 20 h
- · 4 h
- · 11 h
- in port
- in port
Expected arrivals
8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HEINRICH EHLER | Container Ship | 15 nm | 15.1 kn | 30 Jun | 30 Jun |
| RUSADER | General Cargo | 62 nm | 8.5 kn | 30 Jun | 30 Jun |
| CELEBRITY | General Cargo | 106 nm | 10.9 kn | 30 Jun | 30 Jun |
| EEMS TRANSPORTER | General Cargo | 179 nm | 10.9 kn | 1 Jul | 30 Jun |
| REGGEDIJK | General Cargo | 615 nm | 8.4 kn | 3 Jul | 3 Jul |
| JOHANN | General Cargo | 809 nm | 10.4 kn | 3 Jul | 3 Jul |
| C.POLARIS | General Cargo | 977 nm | 6.0 kn | 7 Jul | 5 Jul |
| ULTRA SPIRIT | Bulk Carrier | 1416 nm | 9.7 kn | 6 Jul | 5 Jul |
Risk & quality
Port risk & quality
A coverage-weighted blend of recorded Port-State-Control detentions, marine casualties and live congestion at Belfast. 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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