Busan Port Tracker
Port of Busan · South Korea · UN/LOCODE KRPUS
Free live Busan port congestion today: vessel wait times, ships at anchor, berth occupancy and delay risk from AIS. Updated through the day.
Port of Busan conditions — last 24 hours (as of 22 Oct 2026, UTC)
Port of Busan was holding 25 commercial vessels at anchor. The median stay was 6.7 hours. 12% of port calls anchored at all; the rest went straight to a berth.
- Congestion level
- Moderate congestion
- Commercial vessels at anchor
- 25
- Median time at anchorage, excl. bunkering (last 24 hours)
- 6.7 hours
- Completed anchorage stays measured
- 16
- Median time at anchorage, excl. bunkering (last 7 days)
- 12.6 hours
- Berth occupancy
- 46%
- Port calls that anchored at all (last 30 days)
- 12% (1,259 of 10,152 measured calls)
Measured from public AIS data: time spent at anchor inside the port area by commercial vessels (IMO number, 100 m and longer), with bunkering anchorages excluded from the headline figure. It covers all anchorage time — including waiting for orders — not only the queue for a berth, so it is a different measure from the berth-queue figures published elsewhere and can read higher or lower than them. Ships that went straight to a berth are not in the median at all, so the share of calls that anchored is the denominator it should be read against — it is not comparable with a figure averaged over every arrival, or with whole-turnaround time. This is a dated snapshot; the live Port of Busan tracker updates continuously.
Port of Busan anchorage time by ship type — last 30 days (as of 22 Oct 2026, UTC)
| Ship type | Anchorage stays | Median time at anchorage |
|---|---|---|
| Cargo | 345 | 15.9 hours |
| Tanker | 65 | 10.3 hours |
| Container | 33 | 22.9 hours |
Same measurement as the headline figure — commercial vessels with an IMO number, 100 m and longer, measured from public AIS — grouped by the ship type each vessel broadcasts. Stays are tracked for at most 72 hours; where a share reaches that cap, the median understates the tail.
About Port of Busan
Port of Busan is South Korea's largest seaport and the world's seventh-busiest container port, handling over 22 million TEUs annually. Located at the southeastern tip of the Korean Peninsula, it is the primary transshipment hub for Northeast Asia.
Strengths
- Primary transshipment hub for Northeast Asia — connects Japan, Chinese coastal ports, and Russian Far East to global trade lanes
- Busan New Port features modern, highly automated terminals
- Deep natural harbour with good approach conditions and minimal tidal constraints
Operational challenges
- Intense competition from Chinese ports for transshipment volumes
- Typhoon season (July–October) can disrupt vessel movements in the Korea Strait
Frequently asked questions about Port of Busan
What is the vessel waiting time at Busan port?
The table on this page gives the measured median by ship type for the last 30 days, and it needs its denominator to make sense: only a small share of Busan port calls anchor at all, shown next to the median, so the median here describes a minority of calls. That is why our figure looks unlike published Busan averages, which cover every arrival, including the many that berth without anchoring.
What is the KRPUS port code?
KRPUS is the UN/LOCODE identifier for the Port of Busan, South Korea's largest seaport and the primary transshipment hub for Northeast Asia.
What does a delay at Busan cost?
Every hour a vessel waits outside Port of Busan accrues demurrage. The free Busan live demurrage cost counter converts the current anchorage queue into an estimated hourly and daily cost using vessel-type day rates, and the demurrage calculator lets you price your own container or voyage delay.