On 11 July, Cherbourg's target was raised from per day by the end of September, but this could not be met. Delays in removing mines and underwater obstacles caused the rehabilitation of the port to fall far behind schedule, and discharges actually fell during September because it had to handle troop movements with their organizational equipment, which had originally been planned to land at Brest. SHAEF decided on 7 September that Nantes, Saint-Nazaire, Lorient and Quiberon Bay would not be developed, and the by time the Battle for Brest ended on 25 September, the port was so badly damaged that plans to use it were shelved indefinitely.