Updated 14 November 2026
Gangway AIS is built on receivers ashore and official coastal networks. It is strongest in Europe. Here is what you get for European waters and where the limits are.
European ports we hear have their own free pages with expected vessels, vessels waiting at anchor by name, the median wait this week and the arrivals and departures of the last 24 hours. For example Rotterdam · Antwerp · Hamburg · Dunkerque · Le Havre · Felixstowe · Southampton · Algeciras · Valencia · Genoa · Piraeus · Istanbul · Gdańsk · Klaipėda · Helsinki · Stockholm · Oslo · Bergen · Aarhus.
Vessel positions, tracks and the live stream through the API come only from sources whose licence lets us pass them on. Today that means Norway, parts of the Baltic and the areas of our own and volunteer stations; for the past also Danish and US coastal waters from their archives. A free account shows which. The sources page lists each one with its licence and the credit it asks for.
Port calls, arrivals and departures, waiting times at anchor and port events are worked out by us wherever we hear vessels. Port answers name the terminal or anchorage instead of giving coordinates. Our own record behind them starts on 7 October 2026, with a year of the official Danish archive before it; see historical AIS data.
If you run an AIS receiver on a European coast, one line in its settings sends its data to Gangway AIS and your station gets its own page and coverage map. Station owners get Station Reserve, a premium plan reserved for them. See coverage to write to us.
AIS data can be late, missing or wrong. Not for navigation.
More guides: Historical AIS data · Vessel tracking API · Port waiting times · All reports · All ports · Tankers · Container vessels · Bulk carriers · Ferries
Gangway AIS is built and run by Motto Marine International. Write to desk@gangwayais.com