To accommodate mega-yachts, the Rainier III breakwater is being modernized
A large barge complicated access to Port Hercule, it should leave shortly.
The Rainier III breakwater, which arrived in 2002, was no longer sufficient to accommodate mega-yachts. Three weeks ago, the port’s Société d’Exploitation du Port de Monaco (SEPM) initiated the development of the breakwater to accommodate the mega-yachts in the best conditions during the wintering period.
Thus for three weeks, a large barge had been occupying Port Hercule. This should disappear now, in favor of more discreet work which was to last until mid-November.
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The barge enabled the installation at a depth of 50 meters of four moorings, weighing 200 tonnes each. They allow the mooring of mega-yachts, with a length of 150 meters, thanks to underwater buoys. The little extra, they are all equipped with cages filled with oyster shells in an ecological concern to provide a new habitat for marine ecosystems.
With this work, it is also an opportunity to provide the mega-yachts with a water and electricity supply, but also to allow the evacuation of waste water directly from the breakwater.