Day: 27 September 2018

This Tuesday 25 September 2018 at Le Méridien Beach Plaza Hotel in Monte Carlo, three superyachts stood out above the competition at the 5th Monaco Yacht Show Superyachts Award Ceremony, the inaugural gala event of the world’s most prestigious superyacht show.

The 400 privileged guests can see the winning luxury vessels on display from today to Saturday for their world debuts at the 2018 Monaco Yacht Show.

2018 MYS/RINA Award
The award honors the superyacht whose construction complies with the environmental standards established by the Italian classification company RINA.
Winner: Solo by Tankoa Yachts

2018 MYS Exterior Design Award
The Exterior Design Award distinguishes the most innovative exterior styling of the winning vessel.
Winner: DAR by Oceanco

2018 MYS Interior Design Award
This award recognizes the beauty, comfort and functionality of the exceptional interior.
Winner: Illusion Plus by Pride Mega Yachts

2018 MYS Finest New Superyacht Award
Climax of the evening ceremony, the MYS Finest New Superyacht Award pays tribute to the beauty and luxury of a new superyacht at the MYS, her exterior and interior design and functionalities as well as her highly technical and state-of-the-art performance.
Winner: DAR by Oceanco

Italian shipyard Fincantieri presented a brand new superyacht concept on the first day of the Monaco Yacht Show. Named Mirage, she has been developed in close collaboration with Dutch design studio Van Geest Design.

Pieter van Geest and Tracey-Jayne Canavaggio have a combined 35 years of experience in the design field. Their talents lie in exterior and interior yacht design as well as furniture design and project management. With their extensive knowledge and experience in shipyard production, project management and owner’s representation, they maintain not only an artistic, but also a practical hands-on approach to design.

For Mirage, after extensive research on glass specifications and capabilities, Van Geest Design has created this design. The glass, with its visual effects combined with the overall shape of the yacht, lead to this extraordinary result.

Mirage is the translation city landscapes and skyscrapers, with reflective surfaces that help it blend into the landscape, merging with its environment.

One can only board by invitation. It is a discrete retreat.

From Thursday 13 to Friday 21 September, in connection with the joint application by three countries, France, Monaco and Italy, for the “Mediterranean Alps” to become a UNESCO World Heritage Site under the geological criterion, two experts, a geologist and a naturalist, came to visit the eight sites that make up the cross-border perimeter of the nominated Asset.

In particular, they visited the Mercantour and the Alpi Marittime Parks, the Marguareis and Liguria Parks, the Grande Corniche Departmental Park, the Pointe des Douaniers at Cap d’Ail, the marine sites off the coast of Monaco, Cap Ferrat and Cap Martin, the Bouma Sequence in Luceram and the Peille-Peillon fault.

In Monaco, on 17 September, they attended a presentation on the protection and integrity of land and marine sites.

All the key players in the project’s partner countries have been involved, to ensure that this in situ assessment is undertaken in the best possible conditions.

When this assessment is complete, the final submission of the file will be made. A definitive response will be given at the 43rd session of the World Heritage Committee, to be held in Baku, Azerbaijan, from 30 June to 10 July 2019.

While the final verdict is awaited, several steps still have to be taken to finalise the perimeter and manage this cross-border asset, which combines both terrestrial and marine territory in an unusual way and contains major geological assets of great value.

By supporting this application by the Mediterranean Alps, the Principality undertakes to pursue and strengthen its environmental and sustainable development initiatives in this territory.

The perimeter of this property, both terrestrial and marine, is located at the junction between the western Mediterranean and the Italian peninsula, to the south of the Alpine chain, between the departments of the Alpes-Maritimes and the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence in south-eastern France and the Regions of Piedmont and Liguria in north-western Italy.

Monaco Telecom unveiled, as a world premiere, its nationwide 5G mobile network on the occasion of the Monaco Yacht Show.

Frédéric Genta, Interministerial Delegate in charge of the digital transition, stressed that “The Principality is the first country in the world to open the 5G: the face of the Monaco of tomorrow is emerging today and we could not create a smart nation without a strong partnership with a telecom operator.

“The power of the 5G implemented via a precise grid of the territory will be an essential platform for the digital transition. This launch proves that, day after day, the Prince’s Government is creating the face of the Monaco of tomorrow.”

At the same time, a 5G-connected UAV, flying over the world’s leading yachting market, broadcast live 360​​° High Definition images to a virtual reality headset.

From a technical point of view, the 5G will be able to obtain rates multiplied by 10 and connection times divided by 10. Simultaneous processing will be 10 times higher and can support more objects connected by antenna.

Thus, 5G will support the exponential growth of Internet usage in mobility. The first smartphones capable of supporting this new technology will be available in 2019.

This development is therefore naturally part of Monaco’s evolution as a precursor in the field of connectivity, and accompanies the Principality’s digital transition, a project led by M.Genta.