Welcome to the web site of the Port of Cherbourg

Located in Normandy, at the entrance to the English Channel, the deep water port of Cherbourg is less than 10 miles away from the main sea route where 500 ships sail each day. Easily accessible, the port of Cherbourg is known by the largest shipowners for the quality of service of all its port operators and for its great reliability.

The companies Brittany Ferries, Celtic Link and Irish Ferries operate cross-Channel services to Poole and Portsmouth in England, and to Rosslare in Ireland.

From April to September, fast catamarans reduce the crossing time to England with a crossing to 2.30 hours and complete the offer of services of the conventional ferries. The port of Cherbourg is the leading ferry port on the Western Channel.
The port of Cherbourg offers equipments that allow to handle all types of traffics: containers,dry bulk, dry, or reefer, other conventional traffics, as well as and technical services : bunker services in Cherbourg roadsted or alongside quay and ship repair with ship elevator.

The port of Cherbourg and its passenger terminal took a great part in the transatlantic epic of the first part of the twentieth century, Cherbourg still welcomes the most famous cruise ships of the world. The Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth, Costa cruise ships… : The most famous liners chose to call here.

* Operated by Cherbourg-Cotentin the Chamber of Commerce and Industry within an concession agreement supervised by the with the French State.

Click here to see the map of the port

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	Call of the Century Celebrity Cruises company regularly use the port of Cherbourg this year. For the MS Century, it is her first call in Cherbourg. More information... Call of the Celebration Photographs of the Celebration call are available on this web site. It was the first time the M/S Celebration stopped over Cherbourg on the 23rd of April. The Celebration belongs to Celebrity Cruises and has Bahamas flag. More information... Normandy Express comes back From 13th of March, the fast catamaran Normandy Express links Cherbourg to Portsmouth. More information... Cruise calls for 2008 23 calls are planned for 2008. Among these calls, there are many large ships like Queen Mary 2. This cruise will have the theme of thirties that fits very well with transatlantic terminal of Cherbourg, masterpiece of art deco period. More information... Cherbourg in the first page of Cunard web site Cunard confirms on its web site that Queen Mary 2 will call to Cherbourg on the 15th of July 2008. Cunard that hopes to do about 300 embarkations from Cherbourg, proposes for this cruise the theme of the thirties.