Kiel Ferry Port

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Kiel Ferry Port Overview

Kiel Ferry Port is located at the head of Kiel Fjord on the bay of Kiel in the southeast corner of Baltic Sea and is one of the most varied ports on the Baltic Sea. Its favourable geographic position, deep-water harbour facilities and its direct connection to the inland waterway, rail and road network makes the Kiel port equally attractive for cargo handling and passengers.

With more than 50 scheduled ferry sailings per week, Kiel Ferry Port has a dense network of scheduled traffic to virtually every port destination in the Baltic region. Thanks to the forward-looking port policy and constant investment, Kiel ferry port has become a hub of international importance.

Kiel is the capital of Schleswig - Holstein, the northernmost state of Germany. Its location on the eastern side of the base of Jutland Peninsula has made it into the country's main naval base. Kiel Canal links the North Sea to the Baltic Sea and on an average saves around 280 nautical miles by avoiding going around the Jutland peninsula and hence it is the busiest artificial waterways in the world.

With its range of tourist and cultural facilities, Kiel has become even more attractive. One indication of this is the increasing number of passengers, who visit Kiel with the luxurious Scandinavian ferries and cruise liners.

Kiel is famous for sailing events such as the "Kiel week" - the biggest sailing event in the world. Apart from this, a festival of music and food is held annually in Kiel where you can find various food stalls, people with historical costumes, special breads made for the occasion and lots more.

Kiel Strande, Kiel Schuilksee, Möltenort, Laboe are some of the seaside resorts near Kiel. Laboe has World War II naval memorial and a submarine U-995 on display. In the city itself there are many attractions such as Nikolaikirche (a 14th century Church of St. Nicholas), ruins of a 16th century castle destroyed during WWII, The Rathaus ( town hall) which has a revolving wooden elevator and a WWII air raid bunker open for visitors.

Kiel Ferry Port Services

Kiel Ferry port has various modern terminals for passenger ferries and cruise ferries. Norwegenkai and Schwedenkai (incl. Bollhörnkai-Nord) are the two terminals serving Kiel to Gothenburg and Oslo routes.

Norwegenkai terminal is the regarded as one of the best terminals on the German coast. This terminal serves the Color Line ships offering a daily service between Kiel and Oslo. This terminal has a capacity to hold about 2500 passengers and has first class passenger facilities.

Schwedenkai (incl. Bollhörnkai-Nord) is on the western bank of Kiel Fjord close to the city centre. Stena Line operates a daily service from Kiel to Gothenburg from here.

DFDS LISCO ferries depart from Kiel Ostuferhafen.

All the passenger terminals are close to city centre and there are inter-terminal and rail connections from everywhere along with parking facilities outside all of the terminals.

Kiel Ferry Port Directions

By Car
Head for Kiel via A7/ A215 (Hamburg - Kiel Highway) and follow signs to the required terminal. Follow the road signs for "Fähre" and later "Norwegenkai" or "Fähre Oslo" to get to Norwegenkai terminal and follow signs to "Fähre" and later "Schwedenkai" or "Fähre Göteborg" to get to Schwedenkai terminal.

By Rail
Kiel train station has direct connections to the German Rail network. Then just a few minutes' walk over Hörnbrücke pedestrian bridge to the terminals.

By Bus
From the city centre, it is just 5 to 10 minutes walk to the terminals.