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Ellesmere Port is primarily industrial, being dominated by a Shell oil refinery at Stanlow and a former ICI chemical works. The town is also home to the Vauxhall Motors car factory, noted for producing the Astra range of cars in the UK. There are a number of tourist attractions: the Boat Museum, the "Blue Planet" aquarium and the McArthur Glen Cheshire Oaks outlet village.

Ellesmere Port was nearly included into the Merseyside borough of Wirral when that was formed in 1974. It was removed from the proposals before the Local Government Act 1972 had its first reading, and instead remained in Cheshire as part of the borough of Ellesmere Port and Neston. The two towns, and the other villages that comprise the borough, are thus the only places on the Wirral that are not included as part of Merseyside.

Ellesmere Port has a railway station with frequent electric trains to Liverpool and rare trains to Helsby, the route passing through Stanlow and Elton. It is also located at the interchange of the M56 and the M53 motorways.

The Manchester Ship Canal joins the Mersey estuary north-west of Ellesmere Port at Eastham, but the town is also the northern terminus of the Shropshire Union Canal (which used to exchange goods with sea-going boats at what is now the Boat Museum).

There is a bus station with frequent services to Liverpool, Runcorn, Elton, Ince, Chester and Neston. There are some services to Mold, North Wales. Occasional National Express coaches serve the bus station. Most services are operated by Arriva North West or GHA Coaches.

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