Located in the historic heart of Cannes, at the foot of the Hill of the Suquet, the Vieux-Port de Cannes is the oldest port of the municipality.
Commercial and professional fishing port, the Vieux-Port, with 724 berths, also hosts a large recreational area (traditional pleasure, yachting and super yachting), the largest fishing prud’homie des Alpes-Maritimes, several access pontons dedicated to coastal commercial transport to the islands of Lérins, cruises, a maritime station, a carenage area and a refuelling station.
For the municipality of Cannes, the Vieux-Port de Cannes is a major asset for Cannes’s identity, its maritime and nautical purpose, its economic importance and its tourism reality.
The expiry of the concession contract in place and the need to initiate a new operating cycle provide a great opportunity for the municipality to put in place a project for the qualitative and coherent development of the site, in terms of both water and land, including, at least, the following projects:
— sea works:
— water planning of a tourist area dedicated to vessels offering leisure activities, in order to create a dynamic port tourist hub immediately identifiable by cannois and visitors;
— the development on the water side of an area dedicated to old reservoirs, traditional sailing boats, and ‘traditional’ vessels in order to improve the aesthetic and landscape integration of the Vieux-Port and make it a place for leisure walks;
— the development of a dedicated area on the water side, in accordance with the draft mandate, designed to highlight these traditional vessels with a strong historical heritage and to promote the development of an economic sector around their restoration, in connection with the Vieux-Port cartenage area;
— the extension of the Jetée Albert Edouard Sud in the form of a brown pontoon and flap in order to increase the reception capacity of the Vieux-Port, while remaining within its current perimeter;
— the introduction of an anti-maritime intrusion device to prevent malicious intrusions by sea, in particular at major international events and in the event of a threat to the municipal territory;
— the creation of natural marine water swimming pools along the shoulder and the ‘Radisson’ dam accessible to people with reduced mobility who will damage the natural environment of the site while providing the public with an additional environmentally friendly leisure area.
— Terrestrial structures:
— the development of the area of the ‘fishers’ area’, in perfect architectural harmony with the project to rehabilitate and embellish the stretches of freedom carried by the municipality. The aim is to restore and embellish the ‘Poussia’ area, reserved for fishing prud’homie for the storage of its equipment, and to create beds for the sale of fish at auction;
— the construction of a large car park with a semi-terraced work in place of the current ‘Laubeuf’ car park, with a minimum of 500 places, covered by a large public garden, perfectly integrated from an aesthetic and landscape point of view, the height of which cannot be greater than that of the panoramic walkway on the sea pavement wall of the dam, in order to preserve sight of the Estérel and the sea;
— the construction of a service centre on the ‘Laubeuf’ area, the total height of which will not exceed the level of the current buildings, intended to accommodate all port management services. It has a surface area of approximately 3 450 m.2.