Special Ports 2014: the wind has finally changed
THE PERFECT GIFT!
Give or treat yourself to a subscription to the print + digital Journal of Sailing and for only 69 euros a year you get the magazine at home plus read it on your PC, smartphone and tablet. With a sea of advantages.
Keeping your boat in an Italian marina has never been more convenient. The trend, which we already foretold to you last year, is being consolidated this season thanks in part to news from Greece and France. The former has just instituted a new nautical tax not on possession but on the presence in Hellenic waters of vessels, regardless of nationality. Our transalpine cousins, on the other hand, have seen the Ministry of Budget (the equivalent of our Ministry of Finance) increase taxation on ports, basically raising property values. A cost that each port (and this is what is causing a lot of confusion in France) will have to bear differently depending on how much its value in the territory will be estimated. An expense that, especially in municipal facilities, will go to the individual boater’s boat cost.
THE ITALIAN SITUATION
Apart from the changed conditions of our neighbors, the improvement of the Italian port situation starts from further back: in fact, in recent years we have had a increase in the number of berths impressive: it has grown from about 60,000 berths (6 to 24 meters) in 2007 to more than 83,000 today, divided among 194 marinas. If we also add to these the availability of berths from facilities equipped in pre-existing ports, the number of berths almost doubles to an impressive 161,000. To understand better, we are talking about state-owned concessions from cooperatives, boat clubs, and small companies that have converted obsolete and unsafe moorings (perhaps at the buoy) with efficient floating docks and good service at the dock as well.
Check out all 14 pages of the Ports Special in the June Sailing Newspaper
Share:
Check out the latest issue
Are you already a subscriber?
Ultimi annunci
Our social
Sign up for our Newsletter
We give you a gift
Sailing, its stories, all boats, accessories. Sign up now for our free newsletter and receive the best news selected by the Sailing Newspaper editorial staff each week. Plus we give you one month of GdV digitally on PC, Tablet, Smartphone. Enter your email below, agree to the Privacy Policy and click the “sign me up” button. You will receive a code to activate your month of GdV for free!
You may also be interested in.
USED CLASSIC BOAT | 5 GLOBETROTTER to cruise the world in serenity (16-20 m)
The landscape relating to Classic Boats-that is, production boats over twenty-five years old and launched since 1967-is a vast and ever-expanding one, consisting of hulls of all shapes and sizes and, perhaps, not as easily “navigable” as one would often
Farewell to Mauro Morandi, the hermit “guardian” of the island of Budelli
Mauro Morandi, a former physical education teacher originally from Modena who lived on the island of Budelli, Sardinia, for 32 years in complete solitude like a modern-day Robinson Crusoe, has passed away at the age of 85. Mauro Morandi, the
Mystery of Pogo 50 “ghost” stranded in Cefalù solved
Last Dec. 7, a 15-meter sailboat in good condition but without a crew ran aground on the beach in Cefalù, Sicily. After an on-board inspection and a series of investigations, the Coast Guard identified the boat involved in an accident
How to go on a sailing cruise on Lake Maggiore
It often happens to tell of adventures, regattas and crossings bordering on the verisimilar, “salty” experiences, so to speak. Fewer, however, happen to talk about lakes. Yet sailing is certainly no stranger to the lake tradition, and we are not
