Ports get their own pages — who's in harbour right now
Since fleet tracking went live, Skydex has been quietly detecting port calls: a watched vessel slows and stops near a harbour city — that's an arrival; it gets underway again — a departure. Until today those events only fed your personal fleet feed and the port passport. Now they add up to something bigger: ports have pages.
What a port page shows
Open a port from your fleet's passport — every ⚓ chip there is now a link — and you get:
- In port now — vessels whose latest event is an arrival with no
departure after it: the ships sitting in that harbour at this moment, with how long ago each one arrived.
- Recent traffic — the last 30 days of arrivals ⬇️ and departures ⬆️,
newest first, each vessel linking to its own page.
- Punctuality — where a ship declared this port as its destination with
an ETA, the arrival is marked on time or hours late. AIS destinations are typed by the crew, so we only judge punctuality when the declared destination clearly matches the port.
Honest about its edges
Two things worth knowing. First, the window is a rolling 30 days — the same retention as the port passport; a lifetime port ledger is on the roadmap. Second, coverage is watched vessels: the page reflects the ships that Skydex pilots track, not every hull on the planet. That's not a limitation so much as a mechanic — starring vessels literally grows the history of every port they visit. A busy port page is a community artifact.
Ports past a small traffic threshold go into the sitemap and become searchable; quieter ones stay out of the index until real traffic arrives — the same thin-content discipline every Skydex page follows.
What's next for ports
This is the organic first step. The full version adds the UN/LOCODE port registry, so ports get canonical identities independent of city names, and normalises the free-text destinations crews type into their AIS units — which will connect "NL RTM", "ROTTERDAM" and "Rtdam" to one page. Vessel pages will link the ports a ship has called at, and ports will cross-link the flags and shipyards of their visitors — one more layer of the living atlas Skydex is becoming.
Star more vessels, and the map fills itself in.