Technical Data
Port Specifications
- UNLOCODE
- GBLGP
- Port Type
- Container
- Terminals
- 1
- Berth Count
- 6
- Max Draught
- 17 m
- Country
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Conditions
Current Weather
Overview
About This Port
One of the UK's newest deep-water container ports, located on the Thames Estuary. Features highly automated berths and a logistics park.
Location
Coordinates
51.5041°N, 0.4880°E
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Live Data
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
- · 13 h
- · 9 h
- · 12 h
- · 16 h
- · 4 h
- · 35 h
- · 18 h
- · 27 h
- · 10 h
- · 20 h
- · 29 h
- · 21 h
- · 25 h
- · 13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BUSAN EXPRESS | Container Ship | 100 nm | 4.6 kn | 30 Jun | 30 Jun |
| VALENCE | Container Ship | 772 nm | 17.9 kn | 2 Jul | 2 Jul |
| KMARIN REGARD | Crude Oil Tanker | 1620 nm | 11.5 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 London Gateway. 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 33% of the three signals (scored on a single signal — treat as indicative).
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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