Verkehrszentrale Travemünde, Maritime traffic control center in Travemünde, Germany

Verkehrszentrale Travemünde is a maritime traffic control center in the western Baltic Sea that uses radar systems and automatic vessel identification technology to monitor ship movements. It oversees traffic flow in the region and coordinates responses to emergencies at sea.

The center was established in 1992 and initially oversaw vessel traffic only near Travemünde. Over time its responsibilities grew to include multiple harbors and maritime zones across the region.

The centre's watch area is split into five sectors, each reachable by radio on a separate working channel or by telephone. Nautikers, most of them former captains, staff three shifts around the clock. The tower stands at the end of the Travepromenade next to the pilots' station, on the left bank of the Trave.

The centre sits on the left bank of the Trave at the end of the Travepromenade, next to the pilot station, beneath the over 100-metre-high Maritim Travemünde hotel. It is an operating watch facility with three shifts around the clock, so there is no public visitor access; the glazed tower and its radar can be seen from the promenade outside.

The tower of the old control centre still carries a radar scanner, but the area picture also draws on radar stations on the Bülk and Westermarkelsdorf lighthouses, at Priwall and at Kiel-Holtenau. The centre also monitors the position and upkeep of fixed and floating sea marks and their data links.