Shopping from mega yachts is strong in Naples, now excluded from the port of Mergellina

See Naples and then buy, but on board a ship. This is what tycoons from all over the world have been doing in recent years, docked, until this season, in the tourist port of Mergellina with their mega yachts. Acquisitions of corporate assets, of prestigious real estate in the city, the islands and the coast, of shares in hotels, and between one negotiation and another, luxury shopping at the most exclusive jewelers. Their discretion only rarely allows these news to reach the public, which has now happened due to the failure of the Symphony, the vessel of the French ultra-billionaire Bernard Arnault, owner of the Lvmh, to arrive due to an order from the harbor master’s office which forbidden for security reasons, triggering reactions from the political and business world, first of all the Industrial Union of Naples. This is how we learn – the source is certain but remains anonymous – of the feverish and highly reserved commercial activity that in the summer and inspired by Vesuvius the very rich go about conducting on the waters of the Gulf. They do not set foot in the five-star hotels on the seafront, where privacy and security would not be equally guaranteed: they remain on the ships where they meet boards of directors, sign agreements, option properties. “Often only we and the Digos”, explains those inside the port of Mergellina, “know who the guests are at the mooring”. There are all kinds of them: from Jeff Bezos to Russian oligarchs to show business stars like Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lopez and Johnny Depp. If the Russian oligarchs have bet on the island of Ischia, buying important villas, the sheikhs of Qatar have been in Naples to evaluate other types of investment, not excluding football.