In the first three months of 2026, the ports of Naples and Salerno handled 7.60 million tons of goods globally, with a slight decrease of -0.7% which was determined by the decline -5.3% in the airport of the Campania capital alone, where 4.38 million tons handled, which was almost entirely offset by the growth of +6.4% in Salerno where the total was 3.22 million tons.

With regard to the port of Naples, the quarterly decrease was was determined by the year-on-year contraction in traffic in all three months, with a reduction of 7.1% in January, -5.0% in February and -3.9% last March. In the first three months of 2026 the total traffic of general goods was 2.60 million tonnes (-8.2%), of which 1.81 million tonnes of containerized goods (+0.9%) made with a handling of containers equal to 167,433 TEUs (-3.5%) and 793 thousand tons of rolling stock (-23.9%). There was also a decrease in Solid bulk traffic which fell to 308 thousand tons (-7.6%), of which 104 thousand tons of products metallurgical (-18.1%), 101 thousand tons of cereals (+3.7%) and 103 thousand tons of other cargo (-5.6%). Liquid bulk is increased by +0.9% to 1.47 million tonnes, including 1.10 million tonnes million tonnes of refined petroleum products (+1.0%), 325 thousand tons of gaseous, liquefied or compressed and natural gas (-0.7%) and 40 thousand tons of other liquid bulk (-12.8%).

In Salerno, the quarterly traffic of miscellaneous goods is state of 3.12 million tons (+6.6%), of which 1.67 million tons tonnes of rolling stock (+6.2%), 1.19 million tonnes of freight in containers (+5.6%) totalled with a handling of containers equal to 101,509 TEUs (+7.8%) and 257 thousand tons of other miscellaneous goods (+14.9%). In the dry bulk sector, 100 thousand tons handled (+0.6%).

In the first quarter of 2026, passenger traffic in the scheduled services in the port of Naples was 822 thousand people (-4.8%), of which 87 thousand ferry passengers (-30.0%) and 735 thousand of local services (-0.6%). In Salerno, passengers of the ferries were 20 thousand (-2.0%) and the passengers of the services 33 thousand local (-12.8%). In addition, traffic in the port of Naples cruise was 127 thousand passengers, with an increase +67.9% on the first quarter of 2025 determined by the strong increase of passengers in transit stood at 106 thousand units (+103.4%), while passengers disembarking and embarking amounted to to 20 thousand units (-12.0%). In Salerno, cruise passengers were less than two thousand (+25.3%), almost all in transit.