Restaurants, a green square, toilets, leisure and entertainment areas, offices. And, obviously, above all 815 berths, more than half of which will be granted to nautical clubs for the protection of Livorno’s recreational boating industry which will find space together with luxury boats. All in tourist port of Livorno, whose project – created by the Archea studio of Florence – was illustrated on Thursday 28 March by Azimut | Benetti Group and D-Marin who, starting from the middle of next April, will start the works. Cost estimated at between 14 and 15 million euros, while it will take just over two years for the construction (construction deadline expected in June 2026) of what will be “one of the most important destinations in the Mediterranean”.
There will be four phases of intervention to allow the temporary movement of the boats and the positioning of the dead bodies: we will start from the Elba pier and then continue to the Medici Pier and arrive at the Darsena nuova and the Andana Ancore. In the project – which involves the renovation of the docks, the laying of new piers, the creation of meeting spaces and entertainment facilities with more than 280 m2 reserved for restaurants and bars and 250 m2 for offices – natural elements such as trees and hedges will be used instead of fences, solar panels and a rainwater recovery system for the irrigation of green areas”.
Salvetti: “With the tourist port Livorno will make a leap in quality”
“Livorno will have its tourist port, it will make it possible to enrich a part of the city that connects the city center to the seafront – the words of the mayor, Luca Salvetti -. Twenty years ago this city found itself changing its vision of the old Orlando shipyard sector : on the one hand today there is Azimut which produces yachts and which employs more than two thousand people at work every day, then the second revolution which is the commercial and residential part with the gallery of historic workshops, and now the third piece, that of tourist port that we must have the strength to imagine in a different way. It is a project that will truly make a leap in quality for the city which will allow us to have new entries of people from outside and which at the same time will be at the service of the people of Livorno. Thanks goes to all those who worked to achieve this objective, including the Livorno yachting industry which obtained a 20-year concession with 450 berths”.
“Azimut|Benetti Group has worked for 20 years with the institutions and the local community to implement the Porta Mare project – the comment of Paolo Vitelli, founder of Azimut|Benetti Group -. Today, we are proud to present the final version of the plan, approved and appreciated by all the stakeholders involved. The Livorno Marina will be a cutting-edge work: the historic Medici port will be incorporated into a modern, beautiful and ecological marina, open to the city and yachtsmen from all over the world. To further consolidate the project, we have recently formed a partnership with D-Marin, the largest and most successful marina manager in the Mediterranean, to be able to provide high-quality management and innovative services to national and international shipowners calling at Livorno. It really is a day important for us and for Livorno”.
Finally, the speech by Nicolo Caffo, general director of D-Marin Italia: “D-Marin strongly believes in Livorno. It will be one of the most prestigious marinas in the Mediterranean – Caffo’s words -, born from shared values and aligned with the customer experience of high-end quality, commercial excellence, commitment to sustainability and innovation. In collaboration with Azimut|Benetti Group, D-Marin will ensure that the Livorno Marina thrives and becomes the prestigious yachting hub that we are confident it can be” .
