Visby (Gotland Island Sweden)

Port Visby is accessible 24 hours. Its Inner Harbor has capacity to handle cruise liners with LOA length 200 m (656 ft) and max draft 7,5 m (25 ft). There is no restriction for vessels in port's anchorage area, from where passengers are transported (ferried) via tender boats to Cruise Quay (terminal).

Pilotage is available and compulsory for docking vessels with LOA length over 90 m / 295 ft), with a 5-hour notice being required. At the cruise berths are provided fresh water supply (capacity 40 m3 per hour), garbage collection (at fee), sludge, greywater and sewage collection (at fee). Port's main cruise ship docking facilities are:

• "Berth 4" (length 200 m / 656 ft) that serves vessels with max length 160 m (525 ft) and max draft: 6,5 m (21 ft).
• "Berth 7" (aka "Cruise Quay", length 200 m) is the port's main dock that serves vessels with max length 200 m (656 ft) and max draft 7,5 m (25 ft). Berth 7 also has a shore-based RoRo ramp (serving rolling cargo) with width of 32 m (105 ft).
• Berth 7 has a movable gangway (passenger bridge) with max length 68 m (223 ft) and max height 7 m (23 ft). There is also a covered line serving embarking / disembarking cruise passengers between the docked vessel and the passenger terminal building.

New cruise pier

On April 29, 2018, Port Visby opened a larger cruise ship pier (shown on the above photo). The facility is located in the harbor's southern area (close to "Berth 7").

The new berth allows handling of larger liners and has capacity of 2 vessels docking simultaneously (1 on each side of the pier). Each ship is restricted to max LOA length 360 m (1180 ft) and max draft 11 m (36 ft). With mooring abutments, the dock extends up to 600 m (1970 ft) out into the sea.

The terminal building (sized 300 m2) is adjacent to the quay and has dedicated parking (capacity 20 tour buses). The upgraded facility now allows docked vessels to empty their wastewater into an underground basin, from where the sludge is pumped to a sewage treatment plant.

Construction works on the new quay started in February 2016 and were completed in 2018. The project (budgeted USD 28 million) was joint venture between Gotland (building the facility) and CMP (Copenhagen-Malmo Port, managing the works).