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In 2024, freight traffic in the ports of Naples and Salerno grew by +2%
In the fourth quarter alone, increases of +0.4% and +8.4% respectively were recorded
Napoli
March 12, 2025
Last year, the Campania ports of Naples and Salerno
handled a total of 31.88 million tons of goods,
with an increase of +2.5% on 2023, of which 18.98 million
tons handled by the port of the regional capital
(+2.4%) and 12.90 million tons from the Salerno port
(+2,6%).
In particular, 11.58 million
tons of miscellaneous goods (+1.8%), of which 6.83 million tons
container loads (+8.2%) made with the handling of
646,409 TEUs (+8.5%) and 4.75 million tonnes of rolling stock
(-6,1%). Liquid bulk cargo also increased, totaling
6.12 million tonnes (+5.3%), including 4.84 million tonnes
tons of refined petroleum products (+5.3%), 1.10 million
tonnes of gaseous, liquefied or
compressed and natural gas (+1.2%) and 184 thousand tons of other
liquid loads (+38.6%). Dry bulk cargo fell by -5.1%
falling to 1.28 million tons, of which 540 thousand tons of
metallurgical products (-12.5%), 313 thousand tons of cereals
(+26.8%), 2 thousand tons of minerals and building materials
(+70.3%) and 442 thousand tons of other dry bulk (-12.5%).
In Salerno, the total volume of miscellaneous goods was
12.31 million tons (+2.2%), with containerized goods
equal to 4.25 million tons (+8.0%) and made by moving
358,316 TEUs (+3.6%), with rolling stock amounting to 7.10 million
tons (-1.3%) and other miscellaneous goods to 953 thousand tons
(+4,6%). Dry bulk traffic amounted to 586 thousand
tons (+12.6%).
In 2024, passenger traffic of maritime services
in the port of Naples was 7.63 million
people (+8.4%), of which 6.66 million passengers
local (+10.3%) and 971 thousand ferry passengers (-3.4%). The
cruise passengers were 1.74 million (+6.4%), including 237 thousand
embarked and disembarked in port (+11.0%) and 1.50 million in transit
(+5,7%).
Last year in Salerno passengers of scheduled services were
1.18 million (+8.1%), of which 1.08 million from local services
(+9.2%) and 101 thousand ferries (-2.8%). Cruise traffic is
state of 87 thousand passengers all in transit (-7.8%).
In the fourth quarter of 2024 alone, the port of Naples
handled a total of 4.55 million tons of goods,
with a slight increase of +0.4% on the same period of the year
previous, of which 1.63 million tons of cargo
containerized (+3.0%) totaled with a handling of
containers equal to 160,122 TEUs (+8.4%), 1.03 million tons
of rolling stock (-10.8%), 1.59 million tonnes of liquid bulk
(+10.4%) and 303 thousand tons of dry bulk (-14.8%).
The port of Salerno closed the period October-December of
2024 with a total traffic of 3.24 million tons of goods
(+8.4%), of which 1.66 million tonnes of rolling stock (-1.2%), 1.14 million tonnes
million tons of goods in containers (+10.6%) with a
handling of containers equal to 94,613 TEUs (+5.3%), 269 thousand
tons of other miscellaneous goods (+44.8%) and 165 thousand tons of
dry bulk (+91.3%).
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