Port Everglades Ship Schedule: Reading the Live Vessel Tracker

Broward County files the Port Everglades ship schedule on a subdomain of its own

Broward County publishes the Port Everglades ship schedule at pevvesseltraffic.broward.org, a Tidalis PortControl board open to guests with no login. Best case your sailing sits inside the 36 day forward window and the grid prints its berth; normal case the berth number equals the terminal number; worst case the date comes back empty.

The Port Everglades ship schedule is a live Broward County vessel board pairing each named ship with a numbered berth, and in September 2026 it reached 36 days ahead. Arrivals, departures and shifts each take their own row. The board is not filed under Cruise: it lives on a separate host, and the cruise section reaches it through one button.

That button reads “See Today’s Ship Schedule” and it sits on the cruise landing page, the Cruise Lines page, the Arriving and Departing page and each of the eight terminal pages, all read on 4 September 2026. The destination is a full operations console rather than a passenger calendar, which is why the columns take a minute to learn and then answer more than the port’s own cruise pages do.

Three public views hang off the left rail of that console, and each one answers a different question.

View inside the Port Everglades vessel board	Columns it prints	Question it answers	What it returned on 4 September 2026
Traffic	14 columns, from Status and Start Time to Cargo Type, Tug Provider and Orientation	Which vessels move in or out, on which date, at which berth	180 movements across 8 calendar dates under the default Next 7 Days filter
Vessels At Berth	12 columns, including Berth, ATA, ETD, IMO, LOA and Call Sign	What is alongside right now and when it is booked to leave	12 vessels, of which 1 was a cruise vessel, stamped 23:48
Bulletin Board	2 columns, Date and Description	Port notices to the maritime community	“No data available in table”, 0 entries

Traffic loads by default. Bulletin Board was empty on the day of reading, so a passenger has two working views, not three.

Fourteen columns in the Traffic grid, and the three that answer a passenger question

The Traffic grid prints Status, Start Time, Type, Vessel, From, To, Shipping Line, Agency, Stevedore, Last Port, Next Port, Cargo Type, Tug Provider and Orientation. Three of those fourteen carry the answer a cruise passenger came for.

Type takes three values in the data: ARR, DEP and SHFT, which came to 84, 90 and 6 respectively across the 180 rows of the default window. From and To hold the berth on one side and “SEA BUOY”, “Anchorage” or “Drift Anchorage” on the other, so an arrival reads SEA BUOY to 19 and the matching departure reads 19 to SEA BUOY. Cargo Type separates “CRUISE – MULTI-DAY” from “CRUISE – DAILY”, which is how the Balearia Caribbean ferry is kept apart from a seven night ship.

Status runs Scheduled, HM Approved, Active and Completed. Of the 180 rows, 141 were Scheduled, 29 Completed, 9 HM Approved and 1 Active. A row only becomes Completed after the movement has happened, so a Scheduled row is a plan and nothing more, and the footer stamps each grid with a line in the form “(as of 23:42 on Sep 4)” so you can see how stale the plan is.

Orientation is the one field with no passenger use and real operational meaning: Port Must, Starboard Must or Captain’s Choice, which is the side the ship must present to the quay.

The berth number the Port Everglades tracker prints is the terminal number

Nowhere does Broward County state in words that berth 25 is Cruise Terminal 25. The pairing is proved twice instead, on the two terminals whose operator the terminal pages themselves name.

The Terminal 25 page describes the building as “Primarily used by Celebrity Cruises’ most innovative ships”, and in the vessel board every Celebrity movement in the sample lands at berth 25. Cruise Terminal 4 opened in Fall 2023 as the Disney building, and every Disney vessel movement lands at berth 04. Two published assignments, two matches, and the join key holds for the six lines the port leaves blank on the page that measures all eight numbered terminals.

One caution goes with it. A berth is not a cruise-only asset. Berth 18 took Allure of the Seas on 5 September and the container ships Newton W and Bridge Mail on 6, 9 and 10 September. Berth 21 alternated the Balearia ferry with the container ship Bridge Mail inside the same 24 hours on 5 September. Berth 25 took a bunker barge shift at 22:22 on 5 September. Filter on Cargo Type, never on the berth number alone.

Eight cruise vessels, six berths and 123 movements in thirty seven days

A custom query for 4 September to 10 October 2026 returned 315 movements of every kind, of which 123 were cruise. That is 39 percent of everything that moved, generated by 8 named vessels across 6 berths.

Not one of the eight changed berth during the whole window. Each vessel appears at exactly one number, every time it calls, which is what makes the board usable for planning rather than only for watching.

Cruise vessel as the Port Everglades board names it	Shipping Line field	Berth	Movements in 37 days	Cargo Type
Jaume II	Balearia Caribbean Ltd., Corp.	21	39 movements	CRUISE – DAILY
Jewel of the Seas	Royal Caribbean Cruise, LTD.	19	22 movements	CRUISE – MULTI-DAY
Disney Destiny	Magical Cruise Company Ltd	04	20 movements	CRUISE – MULTI-DAY
Celebrity Reflection	Celebrity Cruises	25	12 movements	CRUISE – MULTI-DAY
Regal Princess	Princess Cruises, Inc.	02	12 movements	CRUISE – MULTI-DAY
Allure of the Seas	Royal Caribbean Cruise, LTD.	18	10 movements	CRUISE – MULTI-DAY
Disney Dream	Magical Cruise Company Ltd	04	6 movements	CRUISE – MULTI-DAY
Ruby Princess	Princess Cruises, Inc.	02	2 movements	CRUISE – MULTI-DAY

Two of the eight numbered terminals took no cruise call at all in those 37 days: Cruise Terminal 26 and Cruise Terminal 29. Five of the ten lines the port lists never appeared either, which fits an early September sample rather than a permanent absence, and is the reason a September reading cannot be used to argue that a building is disused.

One entry deserves a flag. Broward County advertises Cruise Terminal 25 as the home of “the Celebrity Edge and Celebrity Xcel”, yet across 37 days the only Celebrity vessel the board puts at berth 25 is Celebrity Reflection, a 125,366 gross tonne ship of an earlier class. The terminal page describes an intent; the traffic board records what actually tied up.

Every multi-day cruise ship berthed before 07:00 and sailed between 15:00 and 17:00

Of the 123 cruise movements, 84 belong to multi-day ships: 42 arrivals and 42 departures. The clock discipline in those 84 rows is close to absolute.

All 42 arrivals fall between 04:45 and 07:00, with 05:00 the single most common value at 12 rows, then 06:00 at 10 and 07:00 at 8. All 42 departures fall between 15:00 and 17:00, and 16:00 alone accounts for 25 of them. No multi-day cruise vessel in the sample arrived after 07:00 or sailed before 15:00.

Set that against what the port tells passengers. The Arriving and Departing page says only “Follow cruise line’s assigned check-in time. To alleviate delays, do not arrive prior to assigned time”, and publishes no terminal opening hour and no check-in cutoff anywhere. The DEP row supplies the number the cruise pages withhold: your ship is booked off the quay at 16:00, so the boarding deadline sits well before it.

The same page also says “Passengers typically debark the ship between 7 and 9AM”, which is a different clock from the ARR row. A ship logged alongside at 05:00 is not a ship whose passengers are on the pavement at 05:00. Arrival is a pilotage and berthing time, and roughly two hours separate it from the start of the debark window.

How far ahead the Port Everglades vessel database actually reaches

Five preset filters sit above the Traffic grid: Last 7 Days, Next 7 Days, Today, Tomorrow and Yesterday. Next 7 Days is the default and it returned rows on 8 calendar dates, today plus seven.

The Query dialog goes further. It offers a Vessel field, an Agency field, a From Start Date, a To Start Date, a From and To location pair, and the same six query options. Pointed at 12 December 2026 it returned 4 rows, all dated 31 December 2026, and all of them placeholders rather than sailings: one row literally named “KEEP BERTH OPEN” at berth 33C, plus two Kirby Inland Marine barges carrying an ETD of 12/31/2026 23:59.

Working the window back gives the real horizon. The last cruise movement anywhere in the forward database was Celebrity Reflection leaving berth 25 at 17:00 on 10 October 2026, which is 36 days past the reading date. After 11 October only 3 movements of any type remained, the last being the heavy lift vessel Mila departing berth 30E on 16 October 2026. Book a January cruise and the board will have nothing for you until roughly five weeks out.

Backwards it is a genuine archive. The oldest record the public query returns is Barge #401 arriving at berth 06 at 02:00 on 25 September 2007, and only 39 records predate 28 February 2010. Two separate wide queries each came back capped at exactly 500 entries, so any window longer than about a month is silently truncated.

Reading a cruise ship’s dimensions against the berth Broward County measures

Clicking a vessel name opens a Vessel Info card with IMO, MMSI, Class, Flag, Call Sign, GRT, LOA, Beam, Summer Draft and DWT. Cross that card with the berth line on the matching terminal page and you get a fit check nobody publishes in one place.

Six of the eight Port Everglades terminal pages print a berth length and a depth. Cruise Terminal 4 and Cruise Terminal 25 print neither, and those are precisely the two whose operator the county does name. The vessel card fills the hole from the other direction: it measures the ship instead of the quay.

Vessel and berth as the Port Everglades board prints them	LOA from the Vessel Info card	Summer Draft	Berth published on the terminal page	Depth margin under the keel
Allure of the Seas at berth 18	1,181.16 ft	30.51 ft	1,648 ft length, 38 ft depth	7.49 ft
Disney Destiny at berth 04	1,119.15 ft	28.22 ft	not published by the county	not calculable
Regal Princess at berth 02	1,082.73 ft	28.12 ft	1,602 ft length, 31 ft depth	2.88 ft
Celebrity Reflection at berth 25	1,046.64 ft	28.22 ft	not published by the county	not calculable
Jewel of the Seas at berth 19	961.99 ft	28.32 ft	1,300 ft length, 38 ft depth	9.68 ft
Jaume II at berth 21	266.25 ft	10.79 ft	1,475 ft length, 38 ft depth	27.21 ft

Berth 02 is the tight one. Regal Princess draws 28.12 ft against the 31 ft the county publishes for Cruise Terminal 2, a margin of 2.88 ft, while the same ship would sit over 9 ft of spare water at Cruise Terminal 19. That single figure explains more about berth assignment at this port than any line’s marketing page does, and it is why a Princess ship keeps turning up at 02 rather than moving around.

Vessels At Berth answers a question the Traffic grid does not

Vessels At Berth is a snapshot, not a calendar. It lists what is tied up at the instant you load it, with an ATA that already happened and an ETD that has not.

Read at 23:48 on 4 September 2026 it held 12 vessels, and exactly 1 of them was a cruise vessel: Jaume II at berth 21, ATA 20:55, ETD 09:00 the next morning. Every multi-day cruise ship had already sailed by 16:30, which is the practical consequence of the 15:00 to 17:00 departure band. Load this view in the evening and Port Everglades looks like a cargo port, because at that hour it is one.

Two traps live in this view. The ETD column carried 12/31/2026 23:59 for the Kirby barges at berth 05, a year-end placeholder rather than a sailing, and the same Jaume II that the Traffic grid credits to “Host Agency, LLC.” appears here with “Port Everglades Of Broward County” in the Agency column. One vessel, one day, one system, two answers.

Checks worth running before you trust a Port Everglades row

• Read the Status cell first. Only Completed describes something that happened; Scheduled, HM Approved and Active are forecasts, and 141 of the 180 rows in the default window were Scheduled.
• Match the arrival to its departure. A cruise call is two rows, and the pair that matters for embarkation is the DEP row at your berth on your sailing date.
• Filter by Cargo Type before you trust a berth. Berths 18, 21 and 25 all took non-cruise traffic inside the same week as a cruise ship.
• Use the Search box for a line rather than a ship. Typing CRUISE isolates both cruise categories at once; typing a brand name misses Disney, which the board files as Magical Cruise Company Ltd.
• Keep queries under about a month. Two wide windows each returned exactly 500 rows, which is the cap and not the count.
• Export before you plan. The Tools menu offers Export to Excel, Print to PDF and Fast Report, all without an account, so the grid you read at 23:48 can be kept as evidence of what it said.
• Convert the berth to a garage. Berths 02 and 04 feed the 1,818 space Heron Garage; 18, 19, 21, 25, 26 and 29 sit with Lot B, Lot C, Lot D or the 1,966 space Palm Garage, and what the county charges to park against each of them is a separate published document.

Five ways the Port Everglades tracker gets misread

Treating the ARR time as a debark time. Broward County puts debarkation between 7 and 9AM while 42 of 42 multi-day arrivals in the sample were logged between 04:45 and 07:00. A relative who drives in for the 05:00 row waits two hours in a cell phone lot.

Assuming the board covers your sailing date. Anything beyond 36 days from the reading date returned nothing but placeholders, so a February booking checked in September produces an empty grid that looks like a broken tool rather than an empty calendar.

Reading the Shipping Line column as a brand. Disney sails as Magical Cruise Company Ltd, Royal Caribbean as Royal Caribbean Cruise, LTD., and Balearia as Balearia Caribbean Ltd., Corp. A text search for “Disney” returns the vessel names and misses the operator field entirely.

Believing the terminal page over the traffic board on ship identity. Cruise Terminal 25 is advertised for Celebrity Edge and Celebrity Xcel, and the board recorded neither in 37 days.

Expecting the port to close the loop on the day. The assignment still only reaches the public inside the gate, where “colorful digital wayfinding featuring Florida native plants and animals will appear with ship names and terminal assignments”, and Royal Caribbean’s own directions stop at “follow the directional signs for your designated ship’s pier terminal”. The vessel board is the only place either of them is written down in advance, which is a sharper answer than the vessel listing Miami-Dade County files two menus away from its cruise section.

Which Broward County systems were read for this guide, and when

The figures in this guide were verified in September 2026 against the sources named in each section, and every figure credited to Broward County or porteverglades.net was read again on October 7, 2026, twice and minutes apart. The date on the vessel sample matters more than usual. Every October 1, the first day of its fiscal year, the county reissues its port tariff, while shuttle fares and cruise line transfer prices change by season, and ship schedules change weekly; check the issuer’s page before you travel. No provider paid for placement here, and none can pay to appear. Where a booking link earns Lot and Gate a commission it is marked as sponsored and flagged in this line, and as of September 2026 no affiliate link is live anywhere on this site.

Every vessel figure above was read directly from pevvesseltraffic.broward.org on 4 September 2026, build 7.2.2.14472, as the guest user the system calls General_Public. The terminal measurements and quoted instructions come from porteverglades.net. Disney Cruise Line’s own Port Everglades terminal page returned an Access Denied response to every request made on the same day, so nothing here is attributed to it. The board was opened again on 7 October 2026 and answered with the same build, the same Welcome, Guest login, the same three views and the same fourteen Traffic columns, with its grid stamped (as of 11:20 on Oct 7); its Next 7 Days view still put Disney Dream at berth 04 and Jewel of the Seas at berth 19 on 9 October 2026. The 37 day sample above was not re-run, so its counts stay dated to 4 September.

Questions about the Port Everglades ship schedule and vessel tracker

The answers below come from the Broward County vessel traffic board, from the Port Everglades cruise, terminal and Arriving and Departing pages, and from Royal Caribbean’s own port directions, all read on 4 September 2026.

An operations console is doing the passenger’s job

This board was built for pilots, agents and stevedores, and it shows: nothing in the 14 columns was designed for someone holding a boarding pass. Yet it is the only Port Everglades document that ties a named ship to a numbered building before sailing day, and across the sampled window it did exactly that for 8 vessels at 6 berths. The cruise section spent its effort measuring halls, and the sentence a passenger actually searches for was sitting on another host, behind one button, in a column headed To.

Related guides

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