Malmö port and ships, live

The Index rates Malmö a large coastal harbour behind breakwaters. It lists container berths, ramps for roll-on, roll-off ships, dry bulk berths, liquid bulk berths, general cargo berths and yards for major repairs there. It takes ships up to 250 m long, through a channel at least 7.9 m deep.

• Malmö2 km from the centreLarge harbour
• Limhamn5 km from the centreVery small harbour · counted on the page for Limhamn

In 24 hours of AIS recorded Oct 12 – 19, the map heard only 44 ships within 10 km of Malmö: reception here is patchy, so most ships won’t show.

• NGA’s World Port Index rates a harbour by its area, facilities and wharf space when it was last surveyed, not by its traffic, so a busy terminal can be rated small. Where it doesn’t know about a facility it says so, and only what it marks as there is listed here.
• AIS is heard by receivers on shore, so coverage follows where they are: ships far out at sea, or off coasts without one, don’t show. Warships and some others switch it off, and a ship’s type and destination are typed in by its crew.
• Harbours from NGA’s World Port Index (Pub. 150), downloaded on Oct 19, 2026. The major ports and chokepoints are the map’s own reference list.

How the layers work, where their data comes from and what they can’t tell you: Live ship tracker, Shipping chokepoints