Nick Maris, chairman of Camper & Nicholsons Marinas, the marina management and development company, has come up with an intriguing nugget of information about sought-after superyacht berths in the western Mediterranean.
Staff at the company’s Moscow office used satellite pictures and other data to conclude that there were just 155 berths in the whole of Mediterranean France for yachts more than 40m in length. The fact that they went to such lengths in their research underlines how serious the shortage of berths has become.

