
SUPERYACHT #9 Summer 2006
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Article by Massimo Bernardo
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TRIESTE, SUPER YACHT PORT IN MARINA SAN GIUSTO
The Super Yacht marina in the district area of San Giusto
should be completed by the end of the year. The 1.5 million Euro
investment forsees 26 births for yachts between 25 and 40 meters
that will moor just in front of the beautiful Piazza
dell'Unità in Trieste.
This will add a new "gem" to the gleaming necklace of the
Adriatic's pleasure boat harbours, re-launching the capital of
the Friuli Venezia Giulia region which, with adequate
structures, will host an estimated annual transit of at least
250 super yachts. There is already, in summer, a similar flow
from the neighbouring harbour in Venice since pleasure boaters
in the eastern Mediterranean in their tour of the Adriatic
discovered the increasingly attractive Dalmatia coast course.
Now thanks to the City Council, harbour and maritime authorities
the mega yacht port in San Giusto, is ready for launching. This
will bestow upon the city of Trieste new opportunities of
employment and of a renewed economy too, considering both the
noticeable increase of new jobs created as a direct and indirect
result of the spending potential of this particular type of
"pleasure boater." Roberto Perocchio, president of the Italian
Adriatic Association of Pleasure Boat Harbours which counts 50
marinas in between Trieste and Brindisi for a total of 25.000
moorings, is convinced of this. "The new San Giusto Marina can
only but contribute to the upgrade of the city's waterfront
which has already started by converting the old fish market, the
wine cellars, the shoreline and the construction of an
underground parking area for 3000 cars. Today, the Super Yacht
port completes the project's uniqueness in as much as it
represents a perfect attraction for an international tourism of
prestige as it sets course for the Adriatic passing down the
coast of France, Sardinia, Sicily and up to birth in Venice
and Trieste. It's through this nautical circuit that Trieste
with its new structures can consolidate such precious traffic
which must be ensured since these yachts, worth millions of
euros, spend in terms of consumption and maintenance a sum equal
to 3 to 5% of their value" he concludes.
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