Puerto La Cruz port and ships, live

The Index rates Puerto La Cruz a large open roadstead, where ships anchor off the coast. It lists liquid bulk berths there. It takes ships up to 289.6 m long, through a channel at least 7.9 m deep. A vessel traffic service watches the approaches.

• Puerto La Cruz4 km from the centreLarge harbour
• Guanta7 km from the centreSmall harbour
• Bahia De Pertigalete8 km from the centreSmall harbour

In 24 hours of AIS recorded Oct 12 – 19, the map heard no ship within 10 km of Puerto La Cruz: the receivers TAKIP draws on don’t reach here, so its 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