In the first quarter of 2025, the ports of Naples and Salerno handled a total of 7.65 million tons of goods, with an increase of +1.1% over the same period last year year generated by the +3.1% increase in goods at unloading that amounted to 4.52 million tonnes, while cargoes at the end of shipment, with 3.13 million tons, recorded a decrease of -1.6%.

In addition, the total volume growth was produced the increase of +4.3% in traffic handled by the port of the Campania capital, which stood at 4.62 million tons, while traffic in the port of Salerno fell by -3.4% to 3.03 million tons.

In particular, in Naples the traffic of various goods is rose by +2.4% to 2.84 million tons, of which 1.79 million tonnes of containerised cargo (+9.3%) made with a handling of containers equal to 173,516 TEUs (+9.4%) and 1.04 million tonnes of rolling stock (-7.5%). In the liquid bulk cargo 1.46 million tons were handled (+10.9%), of which 1.09 million tonnes of petroleum products refined (+15.3%), 328 thousand tons of petroleum products gaseous, liquefied or compressed and natural gas (+7.2%) and 35 thousand tonnes of other liquid bulk cargo (-40.1%). Dry bulk cargo decreased by -5.7% to 334 thousand tons, including 127 thousand tons of products metallurgical (-31.3%), 97 thousand tons of cereals (+46.7%) and 109 thousand tons of other dry bulk (+6.3%).

In Salerno, the traffic of various goods was equal to 2.93 million tonnes (-1.3%), of which 1.13 million tonnes tons of goods in containers (+9.6%) totaled with a handling of containers equal to 94,165 TEUs (+5.0%), 1.58 million tons of rolling stock (-8.9%) and 223 thousand tons of conventional goods (+8.2%). In addition, the airport handled 99 thousand tons of dry bulk (-40.8%).

In the port of Naples, on the other hand, the traffic of the passengers, with 739 thousand passengers of local services handled in the first three months of 2025 (-7.5%), 125 thousand passengers of the ferries (-1.0%) and 75 thousand cruise passengers (-12.1%), of which 23 thousand on the disembarkation/embarkation (+18.5%) and 52 thousand in transit (-21.1%). In the port of Salerno, the passengers of local maritime services were 37 thousand (+91.4%), those of ferries 20 thousand (-3.6%) and cruise passengers over one thousand (+71.9%), all in transit.