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Port data consists of a number of different datasets pertaining to the layout, commodities, or facilities within a port. More recently this also includes analysis around the efficiency of ports including turnaround times, anchorage times and other performance indicators.
Port Polygons: These polygons are usually collected by organisations who have a presence within the ports, so as to verify their accuracy, such as agents and can provide an accurate reading as to when a vessel arrives in a location by combining these with AIS message to create events, commonly referred to as port calls. These polygons will often provide a high level of granularity, starting with the full port and anchorages, through to the terminal and berth level polygons.
Emission Control Areas: Polygons are also available for ports with Emission Control Area requirements, where there are caps on the types of emissions ships can produce within the area of the port.
Commodity Level Detail: This category refers to a further level of granularity in which port polygon suppliers have also mapped specific terminals and berths to the commodities they are responsible for. For example in Port Hedland, Australia there are a number of major iron ore terminals which provides even more insight on the activities within that polygon.
Port Information and Facilities: As an additional layer of insight, organisations track the facilities available within the port, who they’re operated by and often provide contact details and opening hours so companies can easily get in touch with them.
Benefits
Understanding port events is essential to the operations of most organisations involved in any kind of supply chain, but the mapping of ports, terminals, and berths is a vey time-consuming exercise. The ability to purchase these en-masse, is a significantly quicker process.
Port, terminal, and berth databases are also very difficult to verify without ‘boots on the ground’ to confirm how accurate they are. Having this already completed by such organisations provides more confidence in the datasets.
Drawbacks
Not all ports can be mapped, and if a company’s interests are in areas with low traffic, there is a chance that these ports will not have a high level of detail. While the suppliers are usually happy to add these ports upon request, this may take time.

Port Data
Port data consists of a number of different datasets pertaining to the layout, commodities, or facilities within a port. More recently this also includes analysis around the efficiency of ports including turnaround times, anchorage times and other performance indicators.