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Navigation fees, admin and miscellaneous charges, working craft licence fees, bridge swings and lifts

A big red boat coming into the harbour

Navigation only fees: commercial

  • Annual, manually propelled craft (commercial): £185
  • Annual, powered craft (commercial): £185 per metre
  • 24 hours commercial visitor licence: £11.70 per metre

Commercial passenger operators

  • Annual operating charge: £1,171.65 per boat
  • Passenger carrying charge: 24p per passenger trip
  • Small passenger boat: £586 (12 people or less)

Pontoon hire: marina type, 11.1 metres

  • Per day, up to 7 days: £35
  • Every day after, per day: £70

Working craft licence fees

Barges, lighters and trows: per operation

  • Not exceeding 60 tonnes: £146.50
  • Not exceeding 100 tonnes: £175
  • Not exceeding 250 tonnes: £293
  • Every extra 250 tonnes in excess of 250 tonnes: £293

Tugs used for towing vessels to, from or in any part of the Harbour

  • Commercial towage (per hour and per tug): £293
  • Annual licence: £2,929
  • Mooring only: £351 per metre

Flatters or rafts (superficial area)

  • Annual charge, per square metre: £234
  • Weekly charge, per square metre: £30

Vessel and cargo charges

  • Schedule of tonnage dues and berth charges on all vessels other than "craft" as defined in the Bristol Corporation Act 1961: TBC
  • Project cargo: price on application

Bridge swings and lifts

  • Prince Street Bridge Swing (commercial only): £58.50
  • Plimsoll Bridge Swing (commercial only): £58.50
  • Junction Bride Swing (commercial only): £58.50

Also see fees and charges at Bristol Harbour