ShipTracker ingests AIS from across the North Sea, the Baltic, the Channel, and the Mediterranean — and turns it into a searchable, analysable story of global trade. This is a guided tour through our European coverage.
Every port on Europe's coastline has a fingerprint: a bias toward one cargo segment over another. Rotterdam is a container-dominant gateway; Piraeus moves disproportionately more bulk; Marseille leans liquid. This Sankey traces the last thirty days of port calls across the busiest European ports, grouped by the type of ship that called.
Circle size is the raw volume of port calls over the trailing thirty days; colour encodes the dominant cargo type. Click any port to see its breakdown on the right — a doughnut of ship types and the recent call history.
Watch how Europe's busiest ports trade positions month by month across our portwatch coverage window (from December 2025 onward). Rotterdam, Antwerp, and Hamburg anchor the top, but the race for fourth through tenth is where the seasonal signals show up.
Three ports, barely three hundred nautical miles apart, that together move more cargo than any other stretch of coastline on the continent. Here are the last thirty days, side by side.
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