Towards the America's Cup: Stabia Main Port reclaims Castellammare's ancient harbour

Stabia Main Port, selected as Marina Partner of the America's Cup, is preparing for the regattas to be held in Naples in 2027. The project to recover the public areas of the ancient port of Castellammare di Stabia, right in the city centre, has been launched: in January, the management of the tourist port, the only one in Campania for the mooring of pleasure boats over one hundred metres (gigayachts), started work on the recovery of the port's public areas, with an investment of 10 million euro of totally private funds.

Moreover, the Stabia harbour is ready to adopt a green strategy: from the new tourist season all yachts in port, up to 150 metres, will be able to use electricity and switch off their engines, while also sensitising units for provisions to use less plastic in favour of easily recyclable and biodegradable material.

These are the novelties made official during the 7th edition of the Med Cooking Congress, which saw the Stabia Main Port host large yacht captains, international charter brokers, maritime agencies and companies specialising in on-board provisions.

The project to recover Castellammare's old port was presented in February 2022, and, after a long bureaucratic process that lasted three years, it is now underway. A significant change of course is planned for the Stabia waterfront, recovering the image and decorum of the port's public areas and improving the panorama, especially for those arriving from the sea. The first work was started in January, by the Stabia Main Port entrepreneurial group, which is working in partnership with international agencies: the Luise Group and BWA yachting. They started with the construction site in some areas of the public docks, in the area at the root of the breakwater pier, eliminating in two months, with the involvement of Gori and the logistical support of the Port System Authority of the Central Tyrrhenian Sea, the water leaks of the now old and rusty sub-services of the central water supply system. A problem that had been dragging on for decades, creating potholes and depressions dangerous to passers-by, as well as causing financial damage to the authority. The first scaffolding has also appeared around the Defence Agency's clubhouse at the Cordami Plant in Castellammare di Stabia, which will be returned to its former splendour, respecting its original colours, by November.

"The recovered areas will maintain their intended use," says Giuseppe Di Salvo, president of Stabia Main Port, "Our task will be to recover the port's skyline. We are continuing along a path started ten years ago, believing in a project in which we have been involved for years as entrepreneurs with urbanistic investments in the port area, in the city in terms of territorial marketing, and externally, with the international promotion of Stabia Main Port and the city of Castellammare di Stabia"