It is also serves as a tourist hub, servicing an estimated 10 million people annually transiting through the port.

During World War II, Naples was a major strategic objective in the Italian campaign.

Naples was an important node of Axis naval and land communication and there was a large and very potent German military presence located in the city.

[2] The cruise terminal has ten mooring places, seven mobile walkways, 12 computerised check-in desks[8] and an annual traffic capacity of around 1.5 million passengers.

The sector involves four large companies and 60 small workshops which undertake ship repairs, that have a total number of 2,000 employees[9] and a turnover over US$200 million.