Cruise passenger movements at Italian ports 2010-2022

The number of cruise passenger movements at Italian ports rebounded in 2022, following a sharp drop with the onset of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Despite the significant annual increase, cruise traffic in Italy remained below pre-pandemic levels, with around 9.3 million passenger movements in 2022.

What are the leading cruise ports in Italy?

In 2022, the port of Civitavecchia - a municipality in the metropolitan city of Rome - reported nearly 2.2 million passenger movements, ranking as the leading cruise port in Italy based on passenger traffic, ahead of Naples and Genoa. Meanwhile, the number of cruise passenger movements at the port of Venice declined by 85 percent from 2019 to 2022. In this respect, while Venice recorded the second-highest cruise passenger traffic in Italy in 2019, it ranked 11th in 2022.

What are the busiest cruise ports in the Mediterranean?

With more than two million cruise passenger movements, Civitavecchia was one of the busiest cruise ports in the Mediterranean based on passenger traffic in 2022, just behind Barcelona in Spain. That year, Barcelona, Civitavecchia, and the Balearic Islands reported the highest number of cruise calls in the Mediterranean.