Portsmouth Port - Britains best connected ferry port

The Continental Ferry Port accounts for 80 per cent of Portsmouth Commercial Port's business, however the Port is market led and committed to ongoing development - as a multi-user port.

Portsmouth operates an open port policy, and is keen to:

• Attract small cruise ships and freighters into the Ferry Port at times when the berths are not occupied by the priority users, the ferry companies.

• Discuss new ferry services with current or new operators.

The commercial port leases Flathouse and Albert Johnson quays to MMD, who operate a state of the art fruit import facility and provide stevedoring services to Huelin-Renouf Shipping's Channel Islands general cargo service. These berths are adjacent to the Continental Ferry Port.

We also have berths at The Camber in Old Portsmouth, primarily used by Wightlink, the Isle of Wight ferry company, the city’s fishing fleet and occasional small lay by vessels. The newly regenerated waterfront by the Camber is now home to Gunwharf Quays – Britain’s first world-class shopping and leisure waterfront.

An £8 million project to transform Berth 3 has seen the installation of a new double deck linkspan to meet the requirements of the next generation of cruise ferries, fast ferries and high speed craft. At 50% bigger than the largest linkspan already in operation at the Port, the fully self-contained floating structure offers a greater degree of flexibility, with the ability to change its freeboard from minimum to maximum in less than 15 minutes. The top deck moves independently from the lower deck, providing greater headroom between the decks enabling the linkspan to facilitate the wide variety of ships and cargoes travelling through the Port.