Cruise Norway

Bergen Cruise Port

The gateway to the fjords of Norway

Bergen Cruise Port

Events: Bergen International Festival May-June, Night Jazz, Dragon Boat Festival May, Arts and Crafts Market June,
Fisherfolks Market Days June, Opera - several outdoor performances August.
Cruising Season: May-September. Average temperature (C): May: 18, June: 20, July: 22, August: 20, September: 17.

The gateway to
the fjords of Norway
The City of Bergen was founded on an old Viking settlement in the year 1070. The City has a proud history
and many interesting cultural monuments. Today Bergen has about 230,000 inhabitants. The city is famous
for its exciting mixture of old and new architecture. Bergen has a good infrastructure that combines a range
of international facilities with a pleasant, small-town environment. Bergen has a number of natural
advantages that have helped the port to develop into one of Europes busiest and most important commercial
and trading centres.
Bergen is a very popular cruise destination and the leading cruise port in Norway, and is regarded as one of
the most important centres for the cruise business in Europe. Bergen has each year about 200 cruise ship
calls with more than 120,000 passengers. A special dispensation granted to Bergen by the Norwegian
Parliament allows cruise ships tax-free deliveries also for Norway-only cruises.

PHOTO: PETTER SOLHEIM

Attractions/excursions
Old Bergen

Bergen Aquarium

Time: 2 hours
This is an open air museum of characteristic
18th and 19th century wooden houses. Placed on
squares, streets and narrow alleys, you will find
a bakery, a dentist, a photographer, a jeweller, a
shopkeeper, and a tailor etc.
Distance from Bergen Port:.3 km.

Time: 2 hours
One of Europes largest collection of fish and
invertebrates from the North Sea, as well as
tropical sea-and fresh-water sections. Out-door
and in-door pools.
Distance from Bergen Port: 2 km.

Troldhaugen

Bergen Fortress / King Hkons Hall

Time: 2 hours
Built in 1885, Troldhaugen was the home of the
Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg, world
famous for his Piano Concerts and Norwegian
folk music. He lived here for 22 years and
composed many of his best known works in the
little garden hut. The garden now includes a
modern concert hall as well.
Distance from Bergen Port: 8 km.

Time: 1 hour
Royal ceremonial hall, located in the centre of
Bergen, dating back to the 12th century. At that
time, when Bergen was the political centre of
Norway, this was the largest and most imposing
building of the royal residency.
Distance from Bergen Port: 500 m.

Bontelabo
Skoltegrunnskaien

Festningskaien

Tollbodkaien

ge

Fish market
Time: 1 hour
Bergens famous outdoor fish-market, offering a
large variety of seafood specialities like salmon,
cod, turbot, herring, crabs, lobster, shrimps etc.
Enjoy the hustle, the bustle of this picturesque and
lively Fish Market, which also sells fruits and
flowers, handicrafts and souvenirs.
Distance from Bergen Port: 1 km.

Fantoft Stave Church

Time: 2 hours
The old stave church at Fantoft, originally built
on the countryside by the Sognefjord in 1150 and
moved to Fantoft in 1883, burnt down in June
1992, has now been rebuilt to its original
splendour.
Distance from Bergen Port: 7 km

Puddefjorden
BERGEN
Hurtigrutekaien
Jektevikterminalens
tverrende

NE

NW

Jektevikterminalen

SE

Dokkeskjrskaien

SW

= anchorage
0

500 m
SCALE

Frieleneskaien

Port facilities
Quay capacity: Can easily accommodate 8-10 ships
simultaneously. Sailing lane: Max airdraft main lane 63m,
other lane for sailing ships with higher airdraft than 63m - no
other limitation. Security patrol: Security company. Services:
maritime and technical services, provisons, supplies and
consumbles, transport and operations, tourism - shore
excursions, other services and support organisations.

Pilot:

Tugboat:

Southern entrance Marstein Pilot:

N60 085', E5 01
Northern entrance:
Fedje Pilot N60 525', E4 36
Pilot VHF channel 16.
Tugs available.

Public information
Buses: 200 modern sightseeing coaches.
Guide Service: More than 20 languages.
Taxi: Approx. 350 taxis - approx. 40 limousines.

Shopping: Several shopping centres within

walking distance.

Emergency: Bergen Legevakt (Bergen Casuality

Unit). 24 hr. service tel.: (+47) 55321120.
Nearest aiport: Bergen Airport Flesland, 16 km.

Bryggens Museum

Mount Ulriken

Meland Golf Course

Time: 2 hours
Bryggens Museum, in a beatiful modern building,
is based on the findings of the archeological
excavation of Bryggen between 1955 and 1872.
The foundations of the oldest buildings from the
12th century.
Distance from Bergen Port: 500 m.

Time: 2 hours +
Enjoy Bergens best view of the city, fjords,
islands and coast (2.100 feet a.s.l.). Mount
Ulrikens cable car and the unique doubledecker sightseeing bus takes you from the city
centre to the roof of Bergen.
Distance from Bergen Port: 4 km.

Mount Flyen

The Heathland Centre

Time: whole day

Cruise Passengers visiting Bergen can now enjoy
an 18-hole Champion course in beautiful
surroundings. Meland Golf, with outstanding
practice facilities, aims to be one of the most
attractive courses in Europe. The new golf
course paradise has its own quay and can easily
be reached by tender from Bergen.
Distance from Bergen Port: 36 km.

Time: 2 hours +
An 8-minute exciting funicular ride to the top of
the Mount Flyen (320m / 2.100 feet a.s.l.).
A magnificent view of Bergen and the suburbs.
Ideal for mountain walks.
Distance from Bergen Port: 2 km.

Time: 4 hours
The Heathland Centre is a visitors centre for
cultural landscape on the European coast of the
Atlantic. These types of landscapes, which today
are about to disappear, are a 5000 years old
heritage from the struggle by coastal people for
their living. Awarded UNESCO Cultural
Landscape Prize 2001.
Distance from Bergen Port: 50 km.

Bryggen
Time: 2 - 4 hours
The very first buildings in Bergen were longside
the harbour called Bryggen, dated back to the
11th century. This Hanseatic Wharf, a maze of
wooden buildings, attracts visitors from all over
the world and acts as a landmark of the city
centre. Bryggen is perhaps the most familiar
image in all of Norway.
Distance from Bergen Port: 500 m.

Hanseatic Museum / Schttstuene

Time: 2 hours
One of the oldest and best preserved wooden
buildings in Bergen, furnished in the style of the
1700s to give an intimate picture of the life of
the Hanseatic merchants.
Distance from Bergen Port: 500 m.

Art Galleries
Bergen has several valuable and impressive art
collections, some of them housed in a string of
galleries facing the central Lille Lungegrdsvann
lake.
The galleries display international
paintings and art treasures from classical
periods, like Rasmus Meyers collections incl.
many paintings by Edvard Munch, to
contemporary times.

Name & contacts Port of Bergen

Address: Slottsgaten 1, N-5003 Bergen, Norway
Phone: .....................................(+47) 55 56 89 50
Fax: ..........................................(+47) 55 56 89 86
International Access code: .............................00

Customs:
Tides:
Supplies:
Bunkers:
Refuse:

24hr service.
No tides or current problems.
Average tide 0.8 metres.
24hr service for all supplies.
Bunkers from barge.
Port Authority.

Pilot channel (VHF): ........................................13

Emergency channel (VHF): .............................16
Port Authority channel (VHF): ........................12
Charts:................................................21, 23, 460

Quay
Skoltegrunnskaien
Bontelabo
Festningskaien
Tollbodkaien
Dokkeskjrskaien
Jekteviken
Frieleneskaien

Depth
664 m
331 m
379 m
217 m
675 m
845 m
210 m

E- mail: ......bergen.havn@bergen.kommune.no
Internet:.......www.cruisedestinationbergen.com
............................................www.bergenhavn.no

Lenght
Fuel
9,2 - 7 m
Available from
9,2 - 7,2 m barge on request
6-5m
8m
10,5 - 7 m
12,2 - 8,7 m
9,2 m

Fresh Water
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes

PHOTO: PETTER SOLHEIM

View from Mount Flyen

Summer at the wharf Bryggen

Bergen A World Heritage City

A busy cruiseday in Bergen

Bergen was selected as one of Europes

cultural cities for the year 2000. The city has
fostered many well-known celebrities; the
world known famous composer Edvard Grieg,
the international solo violinist Ole Bull, and
the composer Harald Sverud to name but a
few. Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra is the
oldest in Europe. Moreover, the Bergen
International Festival, the largest cultural
event in Norway, has placed Bergen well and
truly on the world musical map.

Bergen ideal for part or full

change of passengers
Bergen has a good infrastructure.
Cruiseships save more than two days
North Sea Crossing.
Passengers can enjoy more scenery,
culture and city life within a week or a
fortnight.
Cruising in sheltered waters only.
Tax-free deliveries also for Norway-only
cruises.

Cruise Destination Bergen is

the Award Winner by DreamWorld Cruise Destinations.

Fjord Norway
a popular cruise destination
Bergen is surrounded by one of the worlds
most spectacular tourist attractions the
Norwegian Fjords. There are many reasons why
Fjord Norway and Bergen are visited by so many
cruiseships:
Unique nature and beautiful scenery. Exotic.
Cleaness fresh air - clean water.
Tranquillity. Plenty of space. No mass
tourism.
Mild summer climate; the Gulfstream warms
up the Norwegian coast.
Long summer days and short summer nights.
Passengers can enjoy the fantastic scenery
16-20 hours per day.
Safety on shore safety at sea.
Situated in a quiet corner of the world.
Interesting and well-organised shore excursions.
Fjord Norway and Bergen sell at a good profit
and passengers are highly satisfied.
The area offers the ideal combination of nature,
culture, and interesting city life.

PORT OF BERGEN

MEMBER OF

1997
Most Receptive
Destination
Europe

1999
Most Efficient
Port Services
Northern Europe

2000
Best Port
Welcome
Northern Europe

2001
Most Responsive
Port
Northern Europe

Port of Bergen
Slottsgaten 1, N-5003 Bergen - Norway
Phone: (+47) 55 56 89 50
Fax: (+47) 55 56 89 86
E-mail: bergen.havn@bergen.kommune.no
Website: www.bergenhavn.no
www.cruisedestinationbergen.com