1 Mondomarine Yacht for Sale

Updated 7 October 2026 · By Hulls.io Editorial

About Mondomarine

Mondomarine builds custom superyachts in aluminium and steel at Savona, on the Ligurian coast, and its history runs along two lines that eventually met: a century-old shipyard and a much younger yacht brand.

The yard came first. It opened in 1915 on the Savona waterfront below the Valloria promontory as Oriens — Officine Riparazioni Industriali e Navali Savona — on the initiative of the brothers Settimo and Giacomo Ascenso. In 1941 it became Officine Costruzioni Riparazioni Navali Campanella Ascenso under Tito Campanella, whose son Piero ran it from 1943, and in 1963 it took the name Campanella Cantieri Navali SpA. For decades it was mainly a maintenance and repair yard for commercial ships, but it also built yachts: in the 1970s the 48-metre Mohamedia was built there for Adnan Khashoggi.

The Mondomarine brand dates from 1978, when it was established by the Stroppiana family — the brothers Ferruccio and Elio, from Gallo d'Alba in Piedmont, whose family company Mondo had grown out of rubber manufacturing. One Savona account describes the 1978 step as a takeover of an existing small company, MondoMarine SpA, rather than a new foundation. By the early 1990s Mondomarine was concentrating on custom yachts of more than 40 metres in steel and aluminium. According to the same Savona account, the two lines came together in 2001, when Mondomarine acquired the Campanella yard, the site it still builds at today.

The yachts that made its name were mostly in the 40 to 60-metre bracket. Tribù, launched in 2007, is a 50.5-metre explorer-style yacht with a steel hull, an aluminium superstructure and an interior by Studio Lissoni. Zaliv III of 2011 is a custom aluminium yacht of 49.6 metres by the builder's figure, with exterior design by Studio Vafiadis and interior by Luca Dini. In 2014 the yard announced the sale of its M50 project, a 49.2-metre light-alloy semi-displacement design by the Milan studio Hot Lab; an M50, Ipanema, was launched in June 2016 and was reported at the time as the 64th yacht launched by Mondomarine. The 42.3-metre aluminium SF40 Serenity, designed by SFL Design, headed a smaller SF range, and the 60-metre Sarastar followed in September 2016. In 2015 the yard said it had sold 20 yachts over 40 metres in the previous nine years, eight of them over 50 metres.

Ownership changed in 2013, when the Livorno manager Alessandro Falciai acquired control of Mondomarine from the Stroppiana family. Under Falciai the company expanded: in 2015 it won the bid for Cantieri di Pisa, taking over its trademarks, construction facilities and marina basin, six yachts in build and all 33 of its employees.

The expansion did not last. By April 2017 more than 70 workers across the Savona and Pisa yards were on the Italian short-time scheme, the yard was described as effectively at a standstill and the company was looking for investors to refinance it. In July 2017 it applied to the Savona court for a concordato preventivo, a court-supervised restructuring; no workable plan followed, and Mondomarine was declared bankrupt at the end of 2017, with workers occupying the Savona yard in December.

The Neapolitan Palumbo Group stepped in. With the consent of the bankruptcy receivers, Palumbo Superyachts took over the Savona yard at the start of 2018 on an initial six-month lease, setting up a new company, Savona Superyachts, to run it with a focus on refits. In November 2018 Palumbo announced that it had acquired the Mondomarine shipyard, which the Port Authority of Savona transferred to it on 15 November.

Today Mondomarine is one of four brands of Palumbo Superyachts, alongside Columbus Yachts, ISA Yachts and Extra Yachts. The Savona yard covers 30,000 square metres and has an 820-tonne travel lift, and the brand now offers aluminium and steel superyachts from 40 to 75 metres, through its Classic and Discovery lines and the Eidos 57M and Sea Falcon 60M concepts.