Day: 9 April 2019

From Wednesday 25th to Saturday 28th September, 2019, the Monaco Yacht Show will again welcome the international yachting world to the Principality of Monaco, offering a total immersion in the fascinating universe of luxury yachting.

By opening to visitors in the late morning and extending opening times into the early evening, the organisers of the Monaco Yacht Show seek to offer schedules that correspond better to the visiting times preferred by private clients who can benefit fully – and with greater tranquillity – from the social programme accompanying the show.

Every year the Principality of Monaco is decked out in the MYS colours and lives to the frenzied rhythms of the events to which the social elite of yachting and their clients are invited. Private parties, cocktails, gala dinners, business meetings and press conferences are organised around the Monaco Yacht Show, along with the succession of superyacht visits.

The new opening times, chosen after consultation with major yachting companies, should ease the relentless intensity of the fours days of the show and create a more pleasant experience both for visitors interested in chartering or purchasing a yacht and for exhibitors.

The MYS will thus be open to the public from 11am to 7.30pm (it will close at 7pm on the Saturday), while exhibitors and the media will have access earlier in the morning. Exhibitors can devote their mornings to meeting their colleagues in the exhibition tents, holding their press conferences or organising their day’s work in peace and quiet before welcoming visitors.

On Saturday, September 28th at 7pm the 125 superyachts will mark the end of the show with a foghorn concert that will echo around Port Hercules and fade away in the open sea off Monaco to announce the forthcoming 30th edition of the Monaco Yacht Show in September 2020.

29th Monaco Yacht Show | September 25th – 28th, 2019
Port Hercules, Monaco

Opening times:
Wednesday 25th, Thursday 26th, Friday 27th September: 11 am – 7.30 pm
Saturday 28th September: 11 am – 7 pm.

Access for exhibitors from 8am every day.

Access for media (conditional on possession of press badge and an invitation to a press event):
Wednesday 25th September: from 11 am
Thursday 26th to Saturday 28th September: from 8.30 am

During a press visit at the Paprec Trivalo Côte d’Azur sorting center in Cannes-la-Bocca, the participants were able to measure the importance and the reality of sorting in the Principality.

On average 350 tonnes of household packaging from Monaco are transferred annually to this plant for sorting.

This figure should reach 800 tons quickly, thanks to the simplification of the sorting set up in March with the removal of the blue bin and the possibility of putting all recyclable household packaging in the yellow bin.

With a capacity of 36,000 tonnes, Paprec was able to process 38,000 tonnes of household waste last year from the department.

Benefiting from the latest technologies, this evolutionary chain is composed of nine latest generation optical sorters, three ballistic screens, a trommel, two eddy currents and a manual sorting chain. It is suitable for the specificities of selective collection, it facilitates the reduction of refusals and it can adapt to extensions of sorting instructions on household packaging.

As part of the Monaco Ocean Week, an event promoting the International Coral Reef Initiative, of which Monaco is co-presiding alongside Australia and Indonesia until 2020, was held on March 26.

This event brought together more than 50 participants and reinforced the main objectives of the 2018-2020 action plan of ICRI, also endorsed recently at the 4th Assembly of Nations for the Environment.

• The development of recommendations for member states to the Convention on Biological Diversity, concerning a new target for the preservation of coral reefs from 2020. It responds to the urgent need to act to save the reefs threatened with a decline in large scale by 2050.
• Production of a report on the state of health of coral reefs globally for 2020.

This meeting was an opportunity to reiterate the involvement of ICRI in the Coral Reef Community of Ocean Action, which it co-chairs with the UN Environment and to present the results of projects co-financed by the Prince’s Government to promote the resilience of coral reefs and associated ecosystems.

From 9 to 12 April 2019, the six referring doctors of sickle cell disease in the partner countries of the Monegasque Cooperation (Burkina Faso, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, and Senegal) are holding a workshop in the Principality.

The purpose of this is twofold: the formalisation of a network of sickle cell specialists; the study of the first returns following the release, in June 2018, of the harmonised guide relating to the management of this disease.

The workshop was opened by Ms Isabelle Rosabrunetto, Director General of the Department of External Relations and Cooperation.

During these four days, the referring doctors will work on the formal constitution of their network of professionals of the disease in West Africa and Madagascar.

The discussion will also focus on the dissemination, via social networks, of the Guide in their country, with a view to promoting decentralization of the management of the disease, which should be made possible in small health centers, as close as possible to ill.

In parallel, the Monegasque Cooperation went, at the end of March, to Mauritania in support of the sickle cell associations.

It was also an opportunity to advocate with the Ministry of Health and the Mauritanian parliamentarians on the care of patients, better access to medicines and care and improving the living conditions of patients.

The fight against sickle cell disease, hemoglobin disease and the first genetic disease in the world with 50 million carriers of sickle cell trait according to WHO, is one of the flagship programs of the Monegasque Cooperation, which has been paying sustained attention since 2007.

Recently renovated, the CHPG Blood Transfusion Center hosted this week’s AS Monaco Football Club coach Leonardo Jardim for a blood donation.

This event was part of the agreement signed between the Government and the Principality’s professional football club, to raise the awareness of this important health issue to Monaco FC supporters.

“It is an immense honour to receive Leonardo Jardim today. It is very important for us to associate blood donation with sport,” welcomed Dr. Anne Gouverner-Valla, Head of the CHPG Blood Transfusion Center. “I hope this will help us to mobilise the most donors possible. I hope that many people will come to support AS Monaco on Saturday and give their blood before the match,” she said.

On 13 April, the next collection will be organised before the Louis II Stadium, before the match between AS Monaco at the Stade de Reims at 20h, in the framework of the 32nd day of Ligue 1.

Thus, from 4pm until kick-off, the volunteer donors will be able to go to the mobile collection unit located on the forecourt (just next to the AS Monaco Shop Truck) to donate their blood.

Every year 5,000 donations of blood are needed for the 800 patients transfused in the Principality.