Nobody in English covers Italian-island ferries cleanly. We do, and it is the site’s biggest editorial moat. This page indexes every route we have written a deep-dive for. Times are aliscafo (hydrofoil, passenger-only) where available, traghetto (car ferry) otherwise. Direct Ferries and Ferryhopper both let you compare operators; we link to whichever has the fuller inventory on that route.
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Ferry routes, indexed honestly.
The most-searched routes to Italy’s most-visited islands. Times are aliscafo (hydrofoil) where available, traghetto (car ferry) otherwise. Direct Ferries and Ferryhopper both let you compare operators; we link to whichever has the fuller inventory on that route.
Ferry operators, briefly.
Snav. Bay of Naples aliscafi (Capri, Ischia, Procida). Fast, reliable, higher-priced.
Caremar. Bay of Naples traghetti (car ferries). Slower, cheaper, take a car.
Alilauro. Naples to Ischia and Sorrento. Aliscafi.
Liberty Lines. Egadi and Aeolian aliscafi from Trapani and Milazzo.
Tirrenia. Overnight mainland-to-Sardinia traghetti (Genoa/Livorno/Civitavecchia).
Grimaldi Lines. The other main Sardinia and Sicily long-haul operator.
Moby / Toremar. Piombino to Elba, plus Genoa/Livorno to Olbia routes.