Technical Data
Port Specifications
- UNLOCODE
- GBTIL
- Port Type
- General
- Terminals
- 4
- Berth Count
- 37
- Max Draught
- 11.3 m
- Country
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Conditions
Current Weather
Overview
About This Port
The Port of Tilbury is a port located on the River Thames at Tilbury in Essex, England. It serves as the principal port for London, as well as being the main United Kingdom port for handling the importation of paper. There are extensive facilities for shipping containers, grain, and other bulk cargoes. There are also facilities for the importation of cars. It forms part of the wider Port of London.
Location
Coordinates
51.4667°N, 0.3333°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
- · 3 h
- · 3 h
- in port
- · 4 h
- · 5 h
- · 5 h
- in port
- · 3 h
- · 5 h
- · 3 h
- · 9 h
- · 2 h
- · 8 h
- in port
- · 29 h
- · 6 h
- · 2 h
- · 16 h
- · 23 h
- · 2.6 d
- · 10 h
- · 2 h
- · 6 h
- · 4 h
- · 15 h
- · 3 h
- · 20 h
- · 23 h
- · 7 h
Expected arrivals
2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ELBTOWER | Container Ship | 584 nm | 16.1 kn | 1 Jul | 1 Jul |
| SCOT EXPLORER | General Cargo | 777 nm | 11.0 kn | 3 Jul | 2 Jul |
Risk & quality
Port risk & quality
A coverage-weighted blend of recorded Port-State-Control detentions, marine casualties and live congestion at Tilbury. 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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