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Naples

Naples is a seaport in Southwest Italy. The port is located in the center of the Mediterranean Sea, along the ideal route between Suez and Gibraltar, is one of the main stopovers in commercial traffic and records consistent increases in passenger traffic. It handles cargo, cruise and passenger ships and has shipbuilding yards. It is managed by Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Centro-Settentrionale (AdSP – Centre-North Tyrrhenian Sea Port Authority) which includes Castellammare di Stabia and Salerno.

AdSP Mar Tirreno Centrale (Naples) signs MoU with Turkmenbashi

Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) March 22, 2024 – A Memorandum of Understanding has been signed between the Turkmenistan International Sea Port of Turkmenbashi...

Liebherr delivers cranes to Salerno and Naples, Italy

Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) March 18, 2024 – Liebherr Container Cranes Ltd. has announced the delivery of four Electric Rubber Tyred Gantry (ERTG)...

Naples, Salerno report very positive passenger numbers for 2023

Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) February 5, 2024 – The ports of Naples, Salerno and Castellammare di Stabia have reported great improved passenger numbers...

Naples Municipality and Sogesid SpA sign agreement

Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) December 27, 2023 – The Naples Municipality and Sogesid SpA have signed a contract for 13 works in Eastern Naples to improve...

Italy experiences surge in cruise ship tourism

Rome, Italy (PortSEurope) November 5, 2023 – Italy is experiencing a surge in cruise ship tourism and 2024 is forecast to be a record year. Italy is...

Huge cocaine find in Naples

Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) September 13, 2023 – The authorities has seized 122.8 kg of cocaine inside a commercial warehouse in San Giorgio a Cremano...

Port of Genoa able to transport 4 m high road trailers by rail

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) August 15, 2023 – The newly rebuild Facchini 1 tunnel, included in the route of the Terzo Valico dei Giovi – Genoa...

TEN-T Scandinavian-Mediterranean Corridor connects ports of Bari and Naples

Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) August 11, 2023 – The railway line between Italy’s Adriatic Sea port of Bari and the Tyrrhenian Sea port of Naples, in the...

Naples port terminal operators under investigation

Naples, Italy (PortSEurope) July 28, 2023 – The Italian competition and markets authority is investigating four terminal operators in the port of Naples...

Italy: Total containers (TEU) handled in 2022 – ranked by port

Rome, Italy (PortSEurope) July 4, 2023 – Assoporti, Italy’s port industry organisation, has published detailed container (TEU) figures for Italian...

Mergellina port, Naples, says no to “megayachts”

Naples, Italy (PortSEurope) June 25, 2023 – The Port of Mergellina port is refusing entry to yachts longer than 75 metres on safety grounds. Such...

Axpo linked to LNG vessel in Port of Naples

Naples, Italy (PortSEurope) June 23, 2023 – Swiss renewable energy company Axpo has been linked to a liquefied natural gas (LNG) barge in the port of...

MSC to restart DRAGON service

Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) February 10, 2023 – MSC is to restart its DRAGON service that will connect Asia to Israel, Italy and South of France, and...

Grimaldi orders five new car & truck vessels from China

Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) January 16, 2023 – Italian shipping and logistics company Grimaldi has started the year by ordering five new PCTC (Pure Car...

Italy: Top 10 container ports by TEU traffic – Jan-Sep 2022

Rome, Italy (PortSEurope) December 16, 2022 – Assoporti, the Italian ports organisation, has published total cargo figures for January-September 2022,...

Port of Naples handles 16.6 million tonnes of cargo in Jan-Oct 2022

Naples, Italy (PortSEurope) December 2, 2022 – Cargo turnover of the southwestern Italian port of Naples in January-October 2022 was 16.6 million tonnes, up...

Ranking: Italian container terminal TEU traffic 2019-2021

Rome, Italy (PortSEurope) November 24, 2022 – Fedespedi, the national federation of international shipping companies, has published its study...

Fedespedi publishes “Container terminals in Italy: an economic-financial analysis”

Milan, Italy (PortSEurope) November 23, 2022 – Fedespedi, the national federation of international shipping companies, has published its study...

Cargo turnover up in Port of Naples

Naples, Italy (PortSEurope) November 20, 2022 – Cargo turnover of the southwestern Italian port of Naples in January-September 2022 was 14.4 million tonnes,...

MSC Cruises sees October bookings record

Geneva, Switzerland (PortSEurope) November 9, 2022 – MSC Cruises sees October bookings record with nearly 400,000 passenger bookings for winter 2022/23...

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