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Port of Antwerp-Bruges Radar — chart, wind & tide

A chart of the Scheldt, the Antwerp docks and Zeebrugge with buoys, fairways and the sea locks, plus live wind, visibility, waves and the tide at the Scheldt mouth. Plus the facts behind Europe's second-largest port.

By Jasper Bernaers · Updated 2 October 2026 · weather and tide by Open-Meteo, seamarks by OpenSeaMap
▸ Port chart · fairways, buoys, locks
Arrows show the live wind at Antwerp and Zeebrugge. Click a marker for the lock, the wind or the tide. Buoys and fairways from OpenSeaMap.
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▸ Tide at the Scheldt mouth (Vlissingen)—

Model water level (Open-Meteo), not for navigation. High water at Antwerp comes roughly two hours after Vlissingen and is higher. Official tide tables: Agentschap MDK.

Port in numbers · 2025
Throughput
266.5million t
−4.1% vs 2024
Sea-going calls
20,236ships
+0.2% vs 2024
Containers
+0.7%TEU
29.3% share Hamburg–Le Havre
Cruise
166calls
466,089 passengers

Source: Port of Antwerp-Bruges, annual figures 2025.

Sea locks
LockWhereLength × widthOpened
KieldrechtLeft bank, Waasland port500 × 68 m2016
BerendrechtRight bank500 × 68 m1989
ZandvlietRight bank500 × 57 m1967

The three big sea locks on the Scheldt. Smaller locks (Kallo, Boudewijn, Van Cauwelaert, Royers) serve older docks, and Zeebrugge has its own. Live lock status is not public.

Guide — reading the port at a glance

Everything on this page is real data. Here is what each part shows and where it comes from.
1Read the chart

The map shows the fairway buoys, beacons and anchorages from OpenSeaMap on top of the port. Untick seamarks for a clean map.

2Pick an area

Antwerp docks for the terminals and locks, Western Scheldt for ships on the river, Zeebrugge, or the North Sea approach with the anchorages.

3Click a marker

Locks show their size and year, the wind arrows show speed, gusts and Beaufort, and the tide point at Vlissingen shows the next high and low water.

4Check the conditions

Wind and gusts in knots and Beaufort, visibility in nautical miles (fog slows traffic on the Scheldt), and waves at the river mouth.

5Read the tide

The curve shows the model water level at Vlissingen for the coming two days, with high and low water times. The yellow line is now.

AREASWhat to look for

Where the action usually is.

Deurganck dock
the big container ships, tidal, no lock
Kieldrecht
the biggest lock, to the left-bank docks
Wielingen
the buoyed fairway along the Belgian coast
Anchorages
where ships wait off the coast
WINDWhen it matters

Rules of thumb, not port regulations.

< 17 kn
normal operations
17–27 kn
big container ships need more tugs
28 kn +
gale range: delays and suspended moves are common
TIDEWhy it matters here

Antwerp is a tidal port, 80 km inland.

Deep ships
sail up the Scheldt on the tide
Locks
keep the docks at a constant level
Range
several metres between high and low water

Port of Antwerp-Bruges live: chart, weather and tide

This page brings together live conditions for the Port of Antwerp-Bruges, Europe's second-largest seaport, on its own chart of the Western Scheldt, the Antwerp docks and Zeebrugge, with the buoyed fairways and the sea locks. Next to them are the current wind, gusts and visibility at Antwerp and Zeebrugge, the waves at the mouth of the Scheldt, and the tide for the next two days. It is free, without an account, and works on a phone.

Where the data comes from

The map is built on this page with the open-source Leaflet library, with Esri map tiles and the seamark layer of OpenSeaMap, a community nautical chart. It is not an official chart. Live ship positions are not shown. They come from AIS, the Automatic Identification System that every sea-going ship of 300 gross tonnage and up on international voyages must carry, and a live AIS feed for the whole port needs a paid or key-protected data service. Weather, waves and tide come from Open-Meteo's forecast and marine models, updated every ten minutes on this page. The tide is a model water level at Vlissingen, the mouth of the Scheldt. It is good for seeing when the tide turns, but not a substitute for the official tide tables of the Flemish Agentschap MDK or Rijkswaterstaat, and not for navigation.

An earlier version of this page showed a “live” control room with vessel counts, terminal occupancy, lock statuses and an event log. Those numbers were generated randomly in the browser. That has been removed. Lock status, berth planning and terminal occupancy are not publicly available in real time, so they are not shown.

The port in 2025

Port of Antwerp-Bruges handled 266.5 million tonnes in 2025, 4.1% less than in 2024, with 20,236 sea-going ship calls. Containers grew slightly (+0.7% in TEU), while liquid bulk fell sharply and dry bulk fell by 12.1%. Roll-on/roll-off traffic rose by 3%. The United States was the largest trade partner at 31.3 million tonnes. Around 25 days of strikes cost an estimated 2.4 million tonnes. The port was formed in 2022 when the ports of Antwerp and Zeebrugge merged.

Locks and the Scheldt

Antwerp lies about 80 km inland on the tidal Scheldt. Ships reach it through the Western Scheldt, which runs through the Netherlands, with compulsory pilotage. Most of the docks lie behind sea locks that keep the water at a constant level. The Kieldrecht lock (2016) and the Berendrecht lock (1989) are both 500 m long and 68 m wide, among the largest locks in the world. Kieldrecht is the deeper of the two. The container terminals of the Deurganck dock and along the Scheldt quays are tidal and need no lock at all.

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