In 2025, passenger traffic in the port of Genoa is result in line with that of the previous year, having been almost 3.9 million people, with a slight increase of +0.4% on the previous year. 2024. Stazioni Marittime Spa, the company that manages this traffic flow in the port, highlighting that in 2025 This flow was second only to the historical record of the 2023, announced that last year in the cruises 334 ship calls were recorded with 1,630,593 cruise passengers (+6.5%), of which 620,195 as home ports (+3.4%) and 1,010,398 in transit (+8.5%). The company specified that in 2025 the presence of MSCs was important and in the majority Cruises that brought 234 calls to the Genoese terminals with over 1.23 million passengers, reaffirming traffic leadership Cruises in the port. The numbers recorded by Costa Cruises which called the port of Genoa weekly with a ship for the entire season and has made several cruises in the autumn season, bringing a total of 52 calls in 2025 and of about 332 thousand passengers (+5 calls and + 17 thousand pax compared to the previous year). 2024). Stazioni Marittime also emphasized the presence for the first time in the port of Genoa of the Explora Journeys company, MSC Group is a new brand of the MSC Group that operates in the luxury segment of the cruise market, with the ships Explora I and Explora II which in 2025 made a total of six stopovers in Genoa handling about 5 thousand passengers. It is also always important to presence in Genoa of Princess Cruises which with 10 stopovers has handled over 40 thousand passengers

Last year, however, traffic in the segment fell of ferries which totalled 2,253,330 passengers (-3.6%), 840,981 cars (-2.2%), 64,182 motorcycles (-3.1%) and 1,828,293 linear meters of commercial rolling stock traffic (-4.1%). Stazioni Marittime has specified that in 2025 Sicily and North Africa will have recorded increases in traffic, while Sardinia and Corsica closed down compared to 2024.

The terminal company, which is owned by the MSC group (50.10% of the capital), by the Italian System Authority Western Ligurian Sea Port (21.85%), by Costa Cruises (13.28%), Moby (7.33%), the Municipality of Genoa (5.0%) and Tirrenia (2.44%), predicts that in 2026 ferry traffic will be substantially in line with that of 2025, while at the moment for cruise traffic about 320 calls are scheduled with about 1.6 million cruise passengers, of which 600 thousand as home ports and a million in transit. In particular, MSC will confirm its role of major operator in Genoa, bringing about 1.3 million cruise passengers with 241 stopovers. Costa Cruises will continue to guarantee its presence in Genoa with Costa's 40 stopovers Tuscany that will bring a total of about 300 thousand passengers. Princess Cruises will make two more calls (12 overall) compared to 2025, equal to about 50 thousand passengers.