CNB - Construction Navale Bordeaux

Construction Navale Bordeaux, better known as CNB, is Groupe Beneteau's Bordeaux shipyard. The group, founded in the Vendée by Benjamin Beneteau one hundred and forty years ago, today relies on fifteen production sites across France, Poland, Italy, Portugal and Tunisia, and on a dealer network present in more than eighty countries. The Bordeaux site is part of this industrial organisation, with production facilities sized for large vessels.

Since 2019, CNB has refocused its activity on the industrial construction of large multihulls. The Bordeaux yard builds the catamarans of the Lagoon brand, world leader in cruising catamarans, and of the Excess brand, launched that same year. This specialisation came with the conversion of the B5 building to house the multihull activity, a dedicated investment and a strengthening of production capacity, the group having set itself the goal of doubling its multihull capacity.

The yard's know-how covers the full construction cycle of large vessels: design and industrialisation, composite work, assembly, interior fit-out and finishing. Lagoon presents CNB as one of the most respected yards in the superyacht world and associates its production with leading architects and designers: VPLP Design (Marc Van Peteghem and Vincent Lauriot-Prévost) for naval architecture, Patrick le Quément for exterior design, and Nauta Design (Mario Pedol and Massimo Gino) for interiors.

As markers of rigour, the group's Vendée and Bordeaux yards are ISO 9001 certified. Production is part of Groupe Beneteau's environmental commitments, which include work on the recyclable Elium resin, life cycle assessments of its boats, electrification and hybridisation, and the Posidonia Alliance for the preservation of Mediterranean seagrass meadows. Owners also benefit from the international dealer and service network of the group and its brands.