Cannes Yachting Festival yachts arrive in Nice
An extraordinary operation for our Aviation Division! MATHEZ FREIGHT urgently charters the largest commercial aircraft on the market to ship an engine to the Emirates.
Credit: Cannes Yachting Festival
700 boats from around the world on display at Cannes
The Cannes Yachting Festival brings together yachting professionals and enthusiasts from September 9 to 14 in 2025. The Vieux Port, the Port Canto and the Palais des Festivals welcome sailing and motor boats, monohulls and multihulls, from 5 to 50 meters, as well as equipment manufacturers, shipyards and service companies: 640 exhibitors and 55,000 visitors from 5 continents. It’s Europe’s #1 in-water boat show, and the world’s #1 for tall ships!
Professionals on deck at the Port of Nice
The yachts exhibited at Cannes generally arrive by sea, sometimes by road, or by private drive for special occasions.
The port of choice for these yachts transported by boat is Metropole Port of Nicewhere Starclassa shipping agent specialized in the transport of yachts and superyachts, makes regular calls during its European tours between the North Sea, the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. This week, Nice dockers unloaded 11 yachts for Starclass from Gdansk and Southhampton, with the assistance of MATHEZ FREIGHT teams.
MATHEZ FREIGHT specialists in action
Several MATHEZ FREIGHT teams are providing invaluable support for these operations:
- The shipping specialists of the MATHEZ FREIGHT shipping agency at the Port of Nice manage ship calls, coordinate with pilotage, the harbor master’s office and dockers, complete all declarations and provide service to crews.
- Our Cannes office handles boat imports, registrations, domiciliation and all other yachting yachting formalities if necessary.
- MATHEZ ONSITE LOGISTICS takes delivery of exhibitors‘ equipment and stands, stores them and delivers them onsite, to the port and the Palais des Festivals in Cannes.
- Our customs declarants in Nice handle temporary admissions and other customs formalities for yachts.
75 years of providing logistics services on the French Riviera have taught us to expect anything when it comes to yachting requests and to know how to provide operational and administrative solutions.
Frederic Mercier, MATHEZ FREIGHT