Type of harbor Natural/Artificial Land area 142.6 ha (1.426 sq km) | Size of harbor 266 ha (2.66 sq km) | |
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Similar Castel Nuovo, Napoli Centrale railway st, Procida, Royal Palace of Naples, Piazza del Plebiscito | ||
The Port of Naples is one of the largest Italian seaports and one of the largest seaports in the Mediterranean Sea basin having an annual traffic capacity of around 25 million tons of cargo and 500,000 TEU's.
Contents
- Map of Porto di Napoli Italy
- General information
- Statistics
- Container terminal
- Commercial cargo
- Automobile terminal
- Passenger terminal
- Shipyard
- References
Map of Porto di Napoli, Italy
The port is also an important employer in the area having more than 4,800 employees that provide services to more than 64,000 ships every year.
General information
The Port of Naples is situated in the centre of Naples, very close to the central Piazza Municipio, near Piazza|Piazza Garibaldi (FS and MN terminals) and about 15 km (9.3 mi) from Naples Airport.
Statistics
In 2007 the Port of Naples handled 20,269,163 tonnes of cargo and 460,812 TEU's making it one of the busiest cargo ports in Italy and one of the largest container ports in the country.
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Container terminal
The terminal has a storage capacity of 1,336,000 m2, 70 mooring places, 11.5 km of docks and an annual traffic capacity of around 500,000 TEU's.
Commercial cargo
The commercial cargo section of the port has four terminals: one for timber, one for cellulose and two for cereals with a total storage area of 75,000 m2 (810,000 sq ft) (35,000 sq m for timber and cellulose and 40,000 sq m for cereals).
Automobile terminal
The Port of Naples has one RoRo terminal with a total length of 850 m, a land area of 120,000 m2, storage capacity of 8,000 cars and a transshipment capacity of 900,000 units per year. The daily traffic with Sicily alone is 700 vehicles per day.
In 2007 the RoRo terminal handled 370,000 trucks and 475,000 cars.
Passenger terminal
The Port of Naples is one of the largest passenger ports in Italy and one of the largest passenger ports in Europe with a total traffic of 8,988,056 people in 2007.
The cruise terminal has ten mooring places, seven mobile walkways, 12 computerised check-in desks and an annual traffic capacity of around 1.5 million passengers.
Shipyard
The shipyards are an important part of the Port of Naples. The structures of the ports shipyards consist of 3 brick-built docks and 4 floating docks.
The sector involves four large companies and 60 small workshops which undertake ship repairs, that have a total number of 2,000 employees and a turnover over US$ 200 million.