Technical Data
Port Specifications
- UNLOCODE
- FRMRS
- Port Type
- General
- Terminals
- 11
- Berth Count
- 17
- Max Draught
- 12.3 m
- Country
- 🇫🇷 France
Conditions
Current Weather
Overview
About This Port
Marseille is a city in southern France, the prefecture of the department of Bouches-du-Rhône and of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the Provence region, it is located on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, near the mouth of the Rhône river. Marseille is the second-most populous city proper in France, after Paris, with 886,040 inhabitants in 2023 over a municipal territory of 241 km2 (93 sq mi). Together with its suburbs and exurbs, the Marseille metropolitan area, which extends over 3,972 km2 (1,534 sq mi), had a population of 1,900,957 at the January 2022 census.
Location
Coordinates
43.3167°N, 5.3667°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.
- · 6 h
- · 5 h
- in port
- · 6 h
- · 12 h
- in port
- · 30 h
- · 44 h
- · 5 h
- in port
- · 6 h
- in port
- in port
- · 29 h
- in port
- · 4 h
- · 10 h
- · 26 h
- in port
- in port
- · 2.0 d
Expected arrivals
4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VENTO DI LEVANTE | Container Ship | 9 nm | 13.8 kn | 30 Jun | 30 Jun |
| CARTHAGE | Ro-Ro or Passenger Ship | 17 nm | 22.0 kn | 30 Jun | 30 Jun |
| ARKLOW MILL | General Cargo | 620 nm | 11.4 kn | 2 Jul | 2 Jul |
| MEDEMBORG | General Cargo | 1843 nm | 12.4 kn | 6 Jul | 7 Jul |
Risk & quality
Port risk & quality
A coverage-weighted blend of recorded Port-State-Control detentions, marine casualties and live congestion at Marseille. 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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