In the first five months of 2024, the Campania ports administered by the Port System Authority of the Central Tyrrhenian Sea handled a total of over 13.3 million tons of goods, with an increase of +3.0% over the same period of the last year, of which 8.0 million tons were handled by the port of Naples (+5.8%) and 5.3 million tons from the port of Salerno (-1,0%).

In the port of the regional capital alone, traffic of miscellaneous goods was almost three million tons of containerized goods (+10.9%) made with a of containers amounting to 286 thousand TEUs (+10.4%) and 2.0 million tons of rolling stock (+0.4%). In the liquid bulk sector 2.4 million tons were handled (+5.4%), of which 1.9 million tons million tonnes of refined petroleum products (+4.0%), 474 thousand tons of gaseous, liquefied or compressed and natural gas (+1.7%) and 102 thousand tons of other liquid bulk cargo. In the dry bulk sector, the total was state of 582 thousand tons (+2.6%), including 140 thousand tons of cereals (+61.5%), 268 thousand tons of metallurgical products (+3.6%) and 174 thousand tons of other dry bulk (-21.5%).

In the port of Salerno, there were 5.1 million miscellaneous goods tonnes (-1.8%), of which 1.8 million tonnes of cargo in containers (+5.8%) totalled with container handling equal to 154 thousand TEUs (+3.6%), 2.9 million tons of rolling stock (-3.6%) and 355 thousand tons of other miscellaneous goods (-18.9%). In addition The port handled 250 thousand tons of dry bulk (+19,4%).

In the period January-May of this year, the traffic of cruise passengers in the port of Naples was 404 thousand units (+5.2%), of which 58 thousand in home port (-8.4%) and 346 thousand in transit (+7,9%). In addition, in the scheduled services segment, passengers in the ferries were 275 thousand (+12.3%) and passengers of the services almost 2.1 million (+16.0%). In Salerno, cruise passengers, all in transit, were 22 thousand (-16.7%), while passengers in the ferries were 37 thousand (-3.0%) and those of local services 250 thousand (+28.0%).