Venice to Trieste, Ravenna or Chioggia Cruise Port by Rental Car

MSC is the one line in this table that checks you in at Venezia Marittima — then it ferries you out to the ship at Marghera.

Viking markets its 2026–2029 Adriatic sailings from “Venice (Chioggia)”, the Isola Saloni berth, and one 2027 itinerary, Italy, Africa & Iberia Discovery, from “Venice (Fusina)”. Regent Seven Seas lists Seven Seas Grandeur sailing from “Venice (Fusina)” on July 19, 2027, but its August 21, 2027 Seven Seas Prestige voyage now starts in Trieste, so check the voyage, not the line. Seabourn’s 2027 Mediterranean page starts Seabourn Ovation from “Fusina (Venice)”.

Celebrity lists the departure port as “Ravenna (Venice), Italy”, docking at Porto Corsini, “approximately two hours and 30 minutes south of Venice”. Royal Caribbean Group’s October 2025 announcement for summer 2027 has Brilliance of the Seas sailing from Ravenna.

Holland America sells “Trieste (Venice)” from Trieste Terminal Passeggeri, 3 Molo dei Bersaglieri, and runs no transfers from Treviso airport.

Norwegian markets “Venice (Trieste)”, with the ship leaving from the Port of Trieste.

Princess heads its page “Cruises from Venice (Trieste)” and uses Trieste’s port code, though one line of its copy still mentions a “Venice Cruise Terminal”. We read it as Trieste. We found no current Carnival sailing from Venice, Trieste or Ravenna, so Carnival isn’t on this list.

Until October 2026 our own Venice port guide put Royal Caribbean, NCL and Carnival at Marghera and Seabourn and Viking at Fusina, from secondary guides; we corrected it from the line pages above. Go by the line’s booking — not by any guide, ours included.

A permanent terminal on the north bank of the Canale Nord at Porto Marghera was planned in July 2024 for “the 2027 cruise season” (first two berths) and 2028 (the building); that’s a plan, not a promise.

Our routing puts the Trieste passenger terminal about 92.9 miles (149.5 km) from Marco Polo — about 1 hr 46 min on empty roads.

Holland America: Venice airport to the Trieste terminal is “approximately 94 miles (150 kilometers)”, about 2 hours. The two agree, which is rare.

From Piazzale Roma it’s about 6 miles further by our routing, so the airport is the shorter start.

Hertz Italy: “You may only drive the vehicle in the country of rental” unless permitted, which matters on the Trieste road, a short way from Slovenia.

If a side trip over the border tempts you, ask the rental company before you go — not after.

The train is the other way to do it, but we couldn’t read a fare to Trieste — the calculator leaves that row for you. Viator also lists a Ravenna-to-Piazzale Roma arrival transfer and a Venice-to-Trieste private transfer, seen only as search titles with no price.

Celebrity’s two and a half hours is the figure to plan around.

Our routing agrees: Piazzale Roma to Porto Corsini is about 83.8 miles (134.9 km), about 2 hr 28 min; from Marco Polo it’s about 88.3 miles and 2 hr 32 min.

Fewer miles than Trieste, and a longer drive — the road south is slower, not shorter.

Our Porto Corsini pin is the locality, not the terminal gate — add time for the last stretch.

Fuel for the run is about €22 (about US$25) at 30 mpg, our arithmetic, before any toll we couldn’t price.

Celebrity’s City Stays include “private transportation between your airport, hotel, and ship” — which takes the drive off your hands if the price suits.

Viking’s Chioggia berth is at Isola Saloni, about 32.9 miles (52.9 km) and 59 minutes from Piazzale Roma by our routing.

From Marco Polo it’s about 37.3 miles — an hour or a little over.

Fusina is the closer of the two, a short hop from Mestre — the hub has that distance on the Avis card.

Both are short enough that a one-way rental rarely makes sense on its own.

Price a taxi or the line’s transfer against a day’s rental plus a one-way fee; we couldn’t read a fixed fare to either port.

Rent for Chioggia only if the car is going somewhere else afterwards.

Before any one-way fee, that Trieste car comes to about €49 (about US$55) — roughly €24 of it fuel, our arithmetic.

Hertz Italy: one-way fees “may apply”, with no amount. Discover Cars puts the one-way fee inside its total, so search with the real drop-off.

That fee is the number that decides this. We couldn’t find it printed anywhere.

Type your quote into the drop box, then the train and transfer prices on the right. Our one-way guide covers how brands set the fee.

We couldn’t read the A4 or A27 toll calculators, so no toll is in any total on these pages.

Assume the motorway part of either drive is tolled — and budget for it even though we can’t print a figure.

Autostrade lists Telepass, cards, Viacard and cash at the booths, and lets you settle an unpaid toll online.

We’d rather leave the line blank than print a number we couldn’t read.

Check the toll on the operator’s site the week you travel. If you want it in the total, add it to the drop box above.

Search with the true drop-off, the port town, so the one-way fee lands in the total you compare.

Ship at Chioggia or Fusina? Compare that total with a taxi before you click. How Discover Cars handles deposits is in our review.

We reread every line page here on Oct 4, 2026, and the prices on Oct 3. Dollar amounts use the ECB’s Oct 2 reference rate, about $1.12 to the euro — your card’s rate won’t match it exactly.