Ventimiglia is an Italian city located 130 kilometers or 81 miles southwest of Genoa and
7 kilometers or 4.3 miles from the French Italian border as part of Monaco's expansion the port of
Monaco acquired land in Ventimilia and built this facility from scratch it is a new system arena
to the neighbouring monogasque Port Hercule and Port of Fonvieille this will be the entrance or
is the entrance so it's still under construction to the new marina it's called "Cala del Forte"
and it's just down the coast from Monaco - it's about 9 nautical miles what the idea is is that
Monaco Port is really struggling with the space up there they've got a new uh build going on in
Monaco to expand the capacity for i think it's an extra 20 000 people that are going to live in
that space and there's going to be more space for some yachts but the the demand is so high
that they've decided to build or they decided in 2016 to build this marina down here in venti
milia just over the border from France - if you go out of here on the motorway and turn left straight
away you hit the border of France so we're about 9 nautical miles away from Monaco and they have
i don't know whether it's in service yet but they have a shuttle that can sail down from um Monaco
to Cala del Forte here in 20 million in about 20 minutes it's a very fast shuttle.
No not that kind of shuttle -right that's the shuttle that i was talking about and they have
this shuttle and it will ferry people back and forth between the 2 marinas so they don't have
to you know get on land and get cars and stuff like that so that the idea is that they dock here
and they go up there there's 178 berths in this marina going from 6 and a half meters up to 70
meters so the biggest boat they can take here is a 70 meter boat i'm not sure how many birds
they have 470 meter boats and unfortunately i can't go in i think it's i think it's gonna be
controlled access from day one i mean i just tried to go in now and the woman told me that i couldn't
go in because there was building underway i don't know whether that means that when it's completed i
can just walk in but i doubt it very much and most likely they'll have some sort of access control uh
so that's that's a shame what i'm gonna try to do in the future is i'm gonna try to contact the port
uh that can that runs this marina and ask them if i can come in and film i mean it's good for
them to get that advertising um so yeah so what i'd like to do one day also is go on the shuttle
not that shuttle this shuttle from Monaco down here and see what that's like because it travels
at quite a pace although it's relatively early days i've noticed the marina is quite empty every
time i look although the artist's impressions show a thriving marina the reality so far is
quite different and i wonder if it's simply too far away for super yacht owners to want to use if
you look on marine traffic right now you'll see an almost deserted marina with few boats to show time
will tell i suppose perhaps it'll be more suitable to long term stays what do you think do you think
superyacht owners will embrace this new marina so far away from Monaco let me know in the comments
i just thought i would introduce you to this new "Port Carla del forte" i'm sure i'll be filming
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