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Which gate at Piraeus for which island
Which Piraeus gate do ferries to the Cyclades and Poros leave from?
The port authority's chart, checked September 22, 2026, assigns the Cyclades to gates E4, E6, E7, E9 and E10 and the Argosaronic group, including Poros, to E8. The ticket names the gate for each sailing.
The Piraeus Port Authority publishes its gate assignments as one chart, titled "Gates & destinations," on the coastal-terminals page of olp.gr. We checked it on September 22, 2026, and the authority's server reports the image file as last modified on January 10, 2025.
The chart lists twelve gates, E1 through E12, set around the harbor in a ring. A gate is assigned to a destination group, not to a ship, and the same group can appear at more than one gate.
What the chart assigns to each gate
The chart pairs each gate with a destination group or a facility. As checked on September 22, 2026, it reads:
- E1, E2, E3. Island groups outside the seven places this site has stood in. The chart names them; this site does not cover them.
- E4. Cyclades.
- E5. The PPA bus terminal, the starting point of the authority's own buses inside the port.
- E6. Cyclades.
- E7. Cyclades.
- E8. Argosaronic.
- E9. Cyclades, plus one further island outside this site's record.
- E10. Cyclades.
- E11. Cruise Terminal A, Miaoulis.
- E12. Cruise Terminal B, Themistokles, and Cruise Terminal C, Alkimos.
The ticket is the authority on the day
The chart carries its own caveat in its header. It reads: "Check your ticket for the departure gate. If not listed, please contact your travel agent or call 14541 or contact port police."
That is the port authority stating, on its own chart, that the chart is not the final word. The chart is a static image dated early 2025; the ticket is issued for one sailing on one day.
The authority runs a live Arrivals & Departures page on olp.gr, and its port-access map marks electronic information boards around the harbor. The 14541 number is listed on the coastal-terminals page as a 24-hour telephone service, checked September 22, 2026.
Gate allocations move. The chart does not say how often, and the record doesn't hold a history of changes.
Where the gates sit around the harbor
The authority's port-access map, on the same olp.gr page and also last modified January 10, 2025, places the gates as follows. E1 sits at the far western end on the Vassiliadis coast, and E2 is on the western side of the basin toward the Etionia coast.
E3 is at the northwestern corner, next to the Hellenic Railway station. E4 runs along Kondyli Avenue on the northern edge.
E5 and E6 face the northeastern corner, where the map marks the suburban railway and the Electric Railway Line 1 station. A pedestrian bridge is drawn at E6.
E7 is at Karaiskakis Square, and E8 is on the Poseidonos coast, on the eastern side of the basin. E9 and E10 continue south along Miaoulis Avenue.
E11 and E12 are at the southern end on Xaveriou Avenue, serving the cruise terminals. Cruise Terminal B is drawn out on the Themistokles pier, the far southwestern end of the map.
On this map, the Cycladic gates are not grouped together. E4 is on the northern edge, E6 and E7 are in the northeast by the rail stations, and E9 and E10 are down the eastern side.
Walking time between gates
The port authority does not state a walking time or a walking distance between gates, on the chart, the map or the coastal-terminals page. The record doesn't hold it.
This site's own record does not include a timed walk between Piraeus gates. We have not measured one, so this page does not give one.
The free bus inside the port
The coastal-terminals page lists a "Bus in Port" and states, as checked September 22, 2026: "The transport of passengers is FREE." The port-access map draws its route around the harbor with ten numbered stops, and the chart marks E5 as the bus terminal.
The page does not publish a timetable, a frequency or a journey time for this bus. The record doesn't hold those.
How the seven places map onto the chart
Naxos and Tinos are in the Cyclades, which the chart assigns to five gates. Which of the five serves a given Naxos or Tinos sailing is printed on the ticket, and the chart does not settle it. The Cyclades region page holds what the site recorded on both islands.
Poros is in the Argosaronic group, which the chart lists at one gate only, E8. That is the only one of the seven places where the chart names a single gate, and the ticket still governs on the day.
Kefalonia does not appear on the Piraeus chart, and no gate lists the Ionian islands. The Kefalonia airport page covers arrival there by air.
The Athens Riviera, Sparti and Kalamata are on the mainland. No Piraeus gate applies to them; the driving explainer covers the rules for reaching them by road.
What the neighboring planning pages settle
The ferries and island-hopping explainer covers the difference between fast and conventional ferries. It says nothing about finding the boat, which is the gap this page fills.
The flying versus ferries comparison covers the choice of mode before any ticket exists. This page only applies once the choice is a ferry from Piraeus.
A reader landing at Athens International meets the port only after a transfer. The coastal-terminals page points to the Athens transit authority, OASA, at oasa.gr for the bus to the airport and the buses from Karaiskakis Square, and publishes no schedule of its own; the Athens airport page covers the airport end.
A reader taking a car aboard meets the same chart. It does not separate vehicle entry from foot-passenger entry, and the record doesn't hold anything further on that.
Other facilities the authority lists
The coastal-terminals page lists, among the passenger-port works, 13 taxi stations, 130 parking spaces, air-conditioned waiting areas with water coolers, free Wi-Fi, and a 3 km path for the disabled. Those figures are the authority's, checked September 22, 2026.
The port-access map marks canteens, ATMs, WCs, a tourist information kiosk and passenger terminals near several gates. It does not state opening hours for any of them, and the record doesn't hold those.
The limit of this page
This page describes the authority's published chart and map as they stood on September 22, 2026. That is a description of what the port authority publishes, not a route we can support with anything more than its own pages.
Every other planning page on the site sits under the planning section, and the site's airport pages sit under airports.
Common questions
No. The authority's chart, port-access map and coastal-terminals page, checked September 22, 2026, state no walking time or distance between gates. The record doesn't hold it.
Yes. The authority's coastal-terminals page lists a Bus in Port and states the transport of passengers is free, and its chart marks E5 as the bus terminal. No timetable or frequency is published.
The chart's own header says to contact the travel agent, call 14541, or contact the port police. The coastal-terminals page lists 14541 as a 24-hour telephone service, checked September 22, 2026.
On the authority's port-access map, last modified January 10, 2025, E5 and E6 face the Electric Railway Line 1 and suburban railway stations, with a pedestrian bridge drawn at E6.
The Piraeus gate chart, checked September 22, 2026, does not list the Ionian islands at any gate. The site's Kefalonia airport page covers arrival there by air.