Port Canaveral assigns berths by ship, and seven ships get more than one
The berth a named ship uses at Port Canaveral is printed in the Canaveral Port Authority master cruise schedule, a 17 page PDF stamped 27 August 2026. The file names 22 ships loading passengers between 1 September 2026 and 28 February 2027, spread across six numbered berths.
Fifteen of those 22 ships print one berth on every dated row, from first sailing to last. The other seven do not. Counting them means reading all 1,086 rows at once rather than one cruise line at a time, and the count is the reason a passenger who reuses a previous terminal number is guessing.
Three cases follow. Favorable: the ship holds a single berth, as Disney Treasure does across 26 Saturdays at Cruise Terminal 8. Normal: the berth holds while the weekday moves, as Carnival Freedom does across five different weekdays at Cruise Terminal 6. Unfavorable: the berth itself moves, as it does for Carnival Venezia on 1 November 2026.
The ship name is the key. The cruise line is not.
Six numbered berths carry every departure, and Cruise Terminal 2 carries none
Port Canaveral’s master schedule grid prints six terminal lines for each of its 181 dates, which is where the 1,086 rows of the 27 August 2026 edition come from, and the six are Cruise Terminals 1, 3, 5, 6, 8 and 10. No row in the file names Cruise Terminal 2.
Side and exit follow the number rather than the ship. The A Terminals are Cruise Terminals 5, 6, 8 and 10, reached from Exit 54A off S.R. 528, and the B Terminals are Cruise Terminal 1 and Cruise Terminal 3, reached from Exit 54B, which is how the Canaveral Port Authority publishes them on its directions page. Of the 559 dated departures in the window, 361 stand behind Exit 54A and 198 behind Exit 54B.
Fifteen ships load only on the A side and five only on the B side. Two use both, which is the point at which the exit stops being a property of the vessel and becomes a property of the date. Street addresses for each number sit in the address by address reading of all seven numbered berths at Port Canaveral, including the two the cruise grid never uses.
Six lines a day. One of them is always empty.
Port Canaveral terminal by ship, all 22 vessels in the current edition
Alphabetical by vessel, because that is how a boarding document reads. The berth column reports what the port prints across the whole window rather than on one date, so a ship with two entries is a ship whose answer depends on when it sails. Row counts are dated departures only, with port calls excluded, and the times are the four digit values converted to a clock.
| Ship in the master cruise schedule | Cruise line | Berth printed across the window | Channel side and S.R. 528 exit | Dated departures and published times |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adventure of the Seas | Royal Caribbean | CT6 on 7 rows, CT5 on 3 | A side, Exit 54A | 10 rows, 7:00 am in, 4:00 pm out |
| Caribbean Princess | Princess Cruises | CT3 on every row | B side, Exit 54B | 7 rows, 7:00 am in, 3:30 pm out |
| Carnival Freedom | Carnival Cruise Line | CT6 on every row | A side, Exit 54A | 27 rows, 7:00 am in, 3:30 pm out |
| Carnival Glory | Carnival Cruise Line | CT3 on 38 rows, CT6 on 1, CT1 on 1 | Both sides, Exit 54B on 39 of 40 | 40 rows, 3:30 pm out on 39 of them |
| Carnival Mardi Gras | Carnival Cruise Line | CT3 on every row | B side, Exit 54B | 26 rows, 6:00 am in, 4:00 pm out |
| Carnival Venezia | Carnival Cruise Line | CT6 on 2 rows, CT3 on 15 | Both sides, Exit 54A then Exit 54B | 17 rows, 6:00 am in on every row |
| Carnival Vista | Carnival Cruise Line | CT6 on every row | A side, Exit 54A | 26 rows, 4:00 pm out on every row |
| Celebrity Apex | Celebrity Cruises | CT5 on every row | A side, Exit 54A | 18 rows, 7:00 am in, 3:30 pm out on 17 |
| Disney Fantasy | Disney Cruise Line | CT8 on every row | A side, Exit 54A | 40 rows, 6:00 am in, 4:00 pm out on 33 |
| Disney Treasure | Disney Cruise Line | CT8 on every row | A side, Exit 54A | 26 rows, 6:00 am in, 5:00 pm out |
| Disney Wish | Disney Cruise Line | CT8 on 35 rows, CT10 on 16 | A side, Exit 54A | 51 rows, 6:00 am in, 4:00 pm out on 43 |
| Explorer of the Seas | Royal Caribbean | CT5 on every row | A side, Exit 54A | 18 rows, 7:00 am in, 4:00 pm out |
| Harmony of the Seas | Royal Caribbean | CT1 on every row | B side, Exit 54B | 35 rows, 6:00 am in, 4:30 pm out |
| MSC Grandiosa | MSC Cruises | CT10 on every row | A side, Exit 54A | 16 rows, AM and PM, no clock time |
| MSC Seashore | MSC Cruises | CT10 on every row | A side, Exit 54A | 45 rows, AM and PM on 39 of them |
| Norwegian Epic | Norwegian Cruise Line | CT5 on every row | A side, Exit 54A | 16 rows, 7:00 am in, 4:00 pm out |
| Norwegian Escape | Norwegian Cruise Line | CT6 on 13 rows, CT5 on 3 | A side, Exit 54A | 16 rows, 4:00 pm out on every row |
| Norwegian Getaway | Norwegian Cruise Line | CT5 on 23 rows, CT6 on 1 | A side, Exit 54A | 24 rows, arrival printed after departure on 23 |
| Norwegian Prima | Norwegian Cruise Line | CT5 on 9 rows, CT6 on 2 | A side, Exit 54A | 11 rows, 4:00 pm or 6:00 pm out |
| Sky Princess | Princess Cruises | CT6 on every row | A side, Exit 54A | 14 rows, 7:00 am in, 3:30 pm out |
| Star of the Seas | Royal Caribbean | CT1 on every row | B side, Exit 54B | 26 rows, 6:00 am in, 4:30 pm out |
| Utopia of the Seas | Royal Caribbean | CT1 on every row | B side, Exit 54B | 50 rows, 6:30 am in, 4:00 pm out |
Ten of the 22 names run the full window. Three stop before December: Caribbean Princess on 18 October 2026, Adventure of the Seas on 5 November 2026 and Norwegian Prima on 12 November 2026. Nine begin after 1 October 2026, the latest of them Sky Princess on 20 November 2026. A name absent from a date is a name the edition does not cover, which is a different thing from a ship that does not sail.
Seven cruise lines produce those 22 names. Royal Caribbean supplies 139 of the 559 dated departures, Carnival Cruise Line 136, Disney Cruise Line 117, Norwegian Cruise Line 67, MSC Cruises 61, Princess Cruises 21 and Celebrity Cruises 18. On its own cruise lines page the Canaveral Port Authority lists eight cruise lines with a phone number for each, and prints a terminal number beside none of them.
Seven ships change berth inside the season and two of them change exit
Seven of the 22 ships print more than one berth between September 2026 and February 2027. Five of the seven move within the A side, where the driver keeps Exit 54A and changes only the gate. Two move across the channel, and those two change the highway exit as well.
| Ship that changes berth | Berths printed in the window | Dates away from its main berth | Effect on the S.R. 528 exit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adventure of the Seas | CT6 on 7 rows, CT5 on 3 | 10 Oct, 30 Oct and 5 Nov 2026 | None, both berths sit behind Exit 54A |
| Carnival Glory | CT3 on 38 rows, CT6 on 1, CT1 on 1 | 20 Sep 2026 at CT6, 30 Jan 2027 at CT1 | Exit 54A once, on 20 Sep 2026 only |
| Carnival Venezia | CT6 on 2 rows, CT3 on 15 | 10 and 18 Oct 2026, its first two sailings | Exit 54A until 18 Oct 2026, Exit 54B after |
| Disney Wish | CT8 on 35 rows, CT10 on 16 | 16 dates from 4 Sep 2026 to 26 Feb 2027 | None, both berths sit behind Exit 54A |
| Norwegian Escape | CT6 on 13 rows, CT5 on 3 | 20 Nov, 18 Dec and 23 Dec 2026 | None, both berths sit behind Exit 54A |
| Norwegian Getaway | CT5 on 23 rows, CT6 on 1 | 23 Nov 2026, a single Monday | None, both berths sit behind Exit 54A |
| Norwegian Prima | CT5 on 9 rows, CT6 on 2 | 6 Sep and 4 Oct 2026 | None, both berths sit behind Exit 54A |
Carnival Venezia is the clean case and the expensive one. Its first two sailings, on 10 and 18 October 2026, load at Cruise Terminal 6 behind Exit 54A, while every sailing from 1 November 2026 loads at Cruise Terminal 3 behind Exit 54B. A passenger repeating an October drive in November crosses the channel by mistake. That move is traced date by date in the reading of both Carnival berths and what the November change does to a boarding pass.
Carnival Glory is the awkward case, with 38 rows at Cruise Terminal 3, a single Cruise Terminal 6 row on 20 September 2026 that prints no arrival or departure time at all, and a single Cruise Terminal 1 row on 30 January 2027. Disney Wish alternates on a longer cycle, and the 16 dated rows that move Disney Wish to Cruise Terminal 10 lists each one against the ship using Cruise Terminal 8 that day.
Which source wins depends on the ship, and the split is countable. For 15 of the 22 ships the master schedule is the stronger source, because it exists months before a boarding document does and never contradicts one in this edition. For the seven movers the boarding document wins outright, and for Carnival Venezia and Carnival Glory the disagreement is worth a U turn on S.R. 528 with luggage in the car. The schedule stops being usable as a berth source the moment a ship appears in the table above.
Ten ships appear at Port Canaveral all season and board nobody
The Port of Call column separates a visit from a sailing, and 42 rows in the file carry that flag. Ten named ships appear only in flagged rows across the whole window, so no passenger boards them at Port Canaveral: AIDAdiva, American Pioneer, Amerian Ranger, Aurora, L’Austral, Norwegian Bliss, Norwegian Pearl, Oasis of the Seas, Odyssey of the Seas and Queen Anne.
Two of those names cause real confusion because they read like departures. Oasis of the Seas prints nine flagged rows at Cruise Terminal 1 and Cruise Terminal 3 and Odyssey of the Seas prints eleven, both of them Royal Caribbean ships at berths where Royal Caribbean genuinely sails. All 20 of those rows carry the same pair of times, 1:00 pm in and 8:00 pm out, which is the shape of a call rather than an embarkation morning.
Norwegian Bliss prints six flagged rows, three of them at Cruise Terminal 10, each arriving 6:00 am and leaving 9:00 pm, which feeds a belief the four sailing Norwegian ships contradict; the split of Norwegian departures between Cruise Terminal 5 and Cruise Terminal 6 counts them row by row. An eleventh name sits between the two states. Mein Schiff 1 carries flagged rows at Cruise Terminal 8 on 27 September 2026 and Cruise Terminal 6 on 26 October 2026, plus one Cruise Terminal 10 row on 16 October 2026 with no flag and no times printed. A row with no times is not a sailing anyone should drive to.
Cruise Terminal 6 hosts nine ships while Cruise Terminal 1 hosts four
Reading the index backwards changes which berth looks busy. The 112 dated departures at Cruise Terminal 1 are the highest count in the file and come from four ships, while the 93 at Cruise Terminal 6 come from nine ships across four cruise lines. Volume and variety do not sit at the same gate.
At the predictable end of the range stands Cruise Terminal 8, with 101 departures from three ships and one operator, and Disney Fantasy, Disney Treasure and Disney Wish are the only names that ever print there, each of them at 6:00 am. Between those poles sit the other four. MSC Seashore, MSC Grandiosa and the Disney Wish overflow produce 77 departures at Cruise Terminal 10. Carnival Glory, Carnival Mardi Gras, Carnival Venezia and Caribbean Princess produce 86 at Cruise Terminal 3, and seven ships from Royal Caribbean, Celebrity Cruises and Norwegian Cruise Line produce 90 at Cruise Terminal 5.
Nine ships print rows at Cruise Terminal 6: Carnival Freedom, Carnival Vista, Carnival Venezia, Carnival Glory, Norwegian Escape, Norwegian Getaway, Norwegian Prima, Sky Princess and Adventure of the Seas. A Cruise Terminal 6 sailing is therefore the least safe one to infer from a cruise line name, and the crowding goes to a berth with 19 fewer sailings than Cruise Terminal 1. On the B side the inference is safer, and the Royal Caribbean ships that load from Cruise Terminal 1 and the ones that do not covers the exception at Cruise Terminal 5.
Checks that tie one sailing date at Port Canaveral to one berth
- Search the file for the ship name and not for the cruise line. Carnival Cruise Line returns 136 dated departures split across two sides of the channel, while Carnival Vista returns 26, all of them at Cruise Terminal 6.
- Read the weekday column as a sanity check on the date. Utopia of the Seas prints 50 departures on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays and none on a Saturday, so a Saturday row under that name is a misread.
- Treat a blank Ship cell as an idle berth rather than as missing data. 481 of the 1,086 rows carry no ship name, and 29 dates in the window carry no departure from any berth.
- Check the holidays separately. No berth shows a ship on 25 December 2026 or on 1 January 2027, and Disney Wish shifts to Thursday 24 December 2026 and Thursday 31 December 2026 instead of its usual Friday.
- Avoid assuming that two ships of one cruise line share a side on the same day. That assumption fails on 55 dates in this window, 37 of them Carnival Cruise Line and 18 Royal Caribbean.
- Read the departure time as a departure rather than as a boarding deadline. A 4:00 pm value in the last column is the ship leaving, Royal Caribbean requires guests aboard 90 minutes before port operations close, and the port’s garages do not open before 10 AM on an embarkation morning.
- Save the PDF instead of bookmarking the link, then compare the saved copy against the live one before driving. How to tell which edition of the master cruise schedule you are holding lists the six checks that separate one edition from the next.
- Phone what the file leaves blank. The Ground Transportation office at 445 Challenger Road answers on (321) 394-3203, Monday to Friday, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm.
Where a ship name lookup sends a car to the wrong Port Canaveral ramp
Five failures repeat, and each one comes from asking the index a question it does not answer.
Looking up the cruise line rather than the vessel. Carnival Cruise Line loads at Cruise Terminal 3 and Cruise Terminal 6 in the same week, one behind Exit 54B and the other behind Exit 54A, so the line name narrows nothing.
Reusing the berth from the same ship’s last sailing. Disney Wish alternates between Cruise Terminal 8 and Cruise Terminal 10 across 16 dates, and Carnival Venezia changes berth permanently on 1 November 2026.
Counting a flagged row as a departure. Odyssey of the Seas prints 11 rows at Cruise Terminal 1 and Cruise Terminal 3 in this edition and boards nobody at either, which can turn a parking booking into eight billed days at $20.00 per day plus tax, or $160.00 before tax, against a cruise that leaves from somewhere else.
Taking the berth from a cruise line page. Norwegian Cruise Line publishes driving directions to Port Canaveral without a berth number, and the port’s own cruise lines page publishes eight phone numbers without one either.
Reading the index as permanent. The Canaveral Port Authority reissues the file without notice, and the version token in the link archives nothing.
How this Port Canaveral index by ship was compiled
Every count above comes from one document: the master cruise schedule PDF linked from the Canaveral Port Authority cruise ship schedule page, 17 pages, stamped 27 August 2026, read row by row rather than date by date.
The figures in this guide were verified in August 2026 against the sources named in each section. Parking rates usually change in January, shuttle fares and cruise line transfer prices change by season, and ship schedules change weekly; check the issuer’s page before you travel. No provider paid for placement here, and none can pay to appear. Where a booking link earns Lot and Gate a commission it is marked as sponsored and flagged in this line, and as of September 2026 no affiliate link is live anywhere on this site.
Questions about which Port Canaveral berth a named ship uses
The answers below come from the Canaveral Port Authority master cruise schedule for 1 September 2026 to 28 February 2027, read in August 2026.
Both Cruise Terminal 8 and Cruise Terminal 10, depending on the sailing date. The Canaveral Port Authority master schedule prints Disney Wish at Cruise Terminal 8 on 35 rows and at Cruise Terminal 10 on 16 between 4 September 2026 and 26 February 2027. Both berths sit behind Exit 54A.
22 ships load passengers between 1 September 2026 and 28 February 2027, across Cruise Terminals 1, 3, 5, 6, 8 and 10. The busiest is berth 1 with 112 dated departures and the quietest berth 10 with 77. No row in the file names Cruise Terminal 2.
Seven of the 22 do. Adventure of the Seas, Carnival Glory, Carnival Venezia, Disney Wish, Norwegian Escape, Norwegian Getaway and Norwegian Prima each print more than one berth in the current edition. Only Carnival Glory and Carnival Venezia change the S.R. 528 exit as well.
Utopia of the Seas, Harmony of the Seas and Star of the Seas at Cruise Terminal 1, and Carnival Mardi Gras, Carnival Venezia, Carnival Glory and Caribbean Princess at Cruise Terminal 3. Those seven ships account for 198 of the 559 dated departures in the window.
No. 42 rows carry the Port of Call flag, which marks a visit. Ten ships appear only in flagged rows and board nobody at Port Canaveral, and their hours are not one shape. The 20 rows belonging to Oasis of the Seas, which has nine, and Odyssey of the Seas, which has eleven, all print 1:00 pm in and 8:00 pm out. The six rows of Norwegian Bliss print 6:00 am in and 9:00 pm out.
A missing name means the edition does not cover that date, not that the ship never sails. MSC Grandiosa has no row before 14 November 2026 and Explorer of the Seas none before 13 November 2026. The current edition runs to 28 February 2027 and no further.
Twenty two names, six berths, and an index with an expiry date
A ship name reads like a permanent property of a cruise and behaves like a lookup key into a spreadsheet somebody exported on 27 August 2026. Fifteen of the 22 names resolve to one berth and stay there for six months. Seven resolve to two or three, and for Carnival Glory and Carnival Venezia the second answer sits on the far side of the channel behind a different ramp off S.R. 528. An index by ship beats an index by cruise line for exactly that reason, and it is worth nothing at all once the Canaveral Port Authority posts the next edition over the same link.
Related guides
- Seven numbered berths at Port Canaveral, their street addresses and the exit behind each
- What the master cruise schedule prints in each of its seven columns, and what it omits
- Disney at Cruise Terminal 8, and the 16 dates the Wish loads at Cruise Terminal 10
- Carnival across two sides of the channel, ship by ship and date by date
- Norwegian at Cruise Terminal 5 and Cruise Terminal 6, and never at Cruise Terminal 10
- Royal Caribbean at Port Canaveral, with the weekday that decides the highway exit