F2i wins the Lavagna tourist port and invests 75 million

F2i, an Italian infrastructure fund with more than EUR 8.3 billion in assets under management, was awarded the concession to manage the Lavagna marina for 50 years, following a call for tenders published by the Lavagna municipality in 2025. The marina in the Gulf of Tigullio (Genoa) currently has around 1,500 berths for boats from 8 to 51 metres. Over the next four years, the concessionaire F2i Levante, controlled by the Ania F2i fund, will invest 75 million euros to modernise and develop the port and to improve its integration with the city of Lavagna; this is in line with the main objectives set out in the call for tenders, managed by the Liguria Region as the contracting station for the municipality of the coastal town.

The new entity will take the name Marina di Lavagna, but all employees currently working there will be confirmed: the company will take over activities and employees from the outgoing concessionaire, with no solution of continuity. Giuseppe Pontremoli, a manager with long experience in managing the port sector, has been identified as CEO of F2i Levante. There will be five main areas of intervention: the redevelopment of the area known as the 'Piastra' (a concrete area with pits to be redeveloped) and of the under-billow pier, the burying of the municipal car park, the creation of promenades on the dykes, and the construction of a dry port.

"With the awarding of the concession for the port of Lavagna," said Renato Ravanelli, F2i's CEO, "we are continuing our investment strategy in Italian infrastructure and are entering the marina sector for the first time with a prestigious asset. To date, the Italian marina sector is very fragmented and the user market requires ports with excellent services and the possibility of mooring increasingly large vessels. The Mediterranean is the area in the world that most attracts mega-yachts, albeit with a limited number of berths, and 50% of the world's production of large yachts is made in Italy; therefore it also needs berths for the winter months and for maintenance".