The second day of the Monaco Yacht Show saw Dick Alewijnse, CEO of Alewijnse Marine Systems, and Jean-Philippe Mignard, Director General of SEMIDEP CIOTAT, sign the contract that officially establishes the home of Alewijnse’s new superyacht refit and servicing subsidiary at La Ciotat, France. The new company will be positioned at Chantiers Naval, the largest superyacht refit yard in the South of France.
The new agreement means that Alewijnse will have a permanent presence on-site, from which it will provide both warranty services for existing customers and full repair and refit packages for electrical systems designed and installed by third-party yards and integrators. Clients will benefit from rapid analysis and diagnosis of system issues, faster turnaround times and face-to-face coordination with partners in the yard. A team of initially six personnel will be based at La Ciotat, with Alewijnse engineers and technicians deployed from the Netherlands as before to undertake major projects.
“It has been a long- held wish of mine to have a permanent presence in the Mediterranean,” said Dick Alewijnse, “especially in the neighbourhood of Marseille. We recently established a base in Anatalya, Turkey, and now we are very happy that we can be part of the success of La Ciotat, which has in recent years become the leading location in the Mediterranean for yacht refits.”
Alewijnse welcomes all enquiries regarding refit, repair and maintenance work in La Ciotat with immediate effect, and the new office will be fully operational by the end of the year.
