The transformations in the maritime transportation of goods at a world scale let us foresee a more articulated role of the Mediterranean, as the final destination both of the goods coming from Northern America and going to Europe and the countries of Northern Africa, and of the transhipment operations directed to South. - Eastern Asia and Central and Southern Africa. The development of a fleet of large carriers for containers, with freights leaving from the ports of North - Eastern America and going to Eastern Europe, to the Mediterranean and the Pacific Ocean, will foster the growth of the Mediterranean ports. In this general panorama the port of Naples too will be able to claim a leading role, because of its favorable geographical location as well as of the expected interventions on the portual infrastructures. Such a role will be paramount, the more so if it will be able to supply "complex services", that exploit the polyhedricity of the activities now present in the Neapolitan portual system at their best. In this viewpoint we are going to examine the logistic chain in which the Neapolitan port may be inserted in the light of the competitions and perspectives of the various ports on the Mediterranean.
