The yacht terminal in Keelung’s Badouzih (八斗子) Fishing Port is scheduled to be outsourced under an operate-transfer (OT) financing model to a private contractor by the end of this year, according to the Fisheries Agency.
The contract involves a development area of approximately 9.2 hectares, including 2.5 hectares of land and 6.7 hectares of water. Investors are required to have capital of at least NT$10 million (US$333,100).
Qualified bidders for the contract should have backgrounds in yacht production, maritime transport, tourism industries or services tailored to the needs of yacht owners.
The agency said the contract would follow the OT model, in which the contractor is given the concession to operate the business on the facilities built by the government and to transfer the facilities back to the government once the concession is over.
The contractor who secures the development project will have the exclusive right to run the terminal for three years, the agency said, adding that the contract to operate the terminal can be renewed for three more years if the company generates good performance.
The agency estimated the contractor could potentially generate a revenue of at least NT$20 million.
The agency held a session on Thursday last week to explain to the public about the business potential of the yacht terminal.
It drew 16 interested companies, including hotel operators and investors of yacht terminals in other countries.
Fisheries Agency Director-General James Sha (沙志一) said the terminal has a capacity for 74 yachts. Currently, about 60 are berthed there.
“We think that it will help stimulate the economy of both the fishing village and Keelung,” Sha said.
The agency said the terminal is the only one in the nation that can offer users a fresh water supply as well as electricity power service of 220V to 400V.
Aside from Badouzih, the agency also plans to outsource the operations of the yacht terminals at Wushih (烏石) Fishing Port in Yilan County and Anping (安平) Fishing Port in Greater Tainan by the end of next year under the build-operate-transfer model.
The investment in these three terminals could potentially top NT$4 billion. Statistics from the agency showed that about 1.19 million passengers boarded tourism-related fishing boats last year, including approximately 400,000 on whale-watching boats, 590,000 on fishing charter boats and about 200,000 on lagoon tour boats. The annual output of the service could reach NT$1.9 billion.
The largest fishing port in northern Taiwan, Badouzih has gained a reputation as a holiday seafood market. In 2009, the agency started turning part of the port into a pier for leisure boats.
The yacht terminal has been in operation since 2012, with the berth utilization rate reaching 80 percent. It has drawn several superyachts weighing 1,600 tonnes or more.
The agency decided to outsource the terminal to a private contractor to further expand its operation and facilitate the development of yacht-related industries around the port.
Death row inmate Huang Lin-kai (黃麟凱), who was convicted for the double murder of his former girlfriend and her mother, is to be executed at the Taipei Detention Center tonight, the Ministry of Justice announced. Huang, who was a military conscript at the time, was convicted for the rape and murder of his ex-girlfriend, surnamed Wang (王), and the murder of her mother, after breaking into their home on Oct. 1, 2013. Prosecutors cited anger over the breakup and a dispute about money as the motives behind the double homicide. This is the first time that Minister of Justice Cheng Ming-chien (鄭銘謙) has
Ferry operators are planning to provide a total of 1,429 journeys between Taiwan proper and its offshore islands to meet increased travel demand during the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday, the Maritime and Port Bureau said yesterday. The available number of ferry journeys on eight routes from Saturday next week to Feb. 2 is expected to meet a maximum transport capacity of 289,414 passengers, the bureau said in a news release. Meanwhile, a total of 396 journeys on the "small three links," which are direct ferries connecting Taiwan's Kinmen and Lienchiang counties with China's Fujian Province, are also being planned to accommodate
BITTERLY COLD: The inauguration ceremony for US president-elect Donald Trump has been moved indoors due to cold weather, with the new venue lacking capacity A delegation of cross-party lawmakers from Taiwan, led by Legislative Speaker Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜), for the inauguration of US president-elect Donald Trump, would not be able to attend the ceremony, as it is being moved indoors due to forecasts of intense cold weather in Washington tomorrow. The inauguration ceremony for Trump and US vice president-elect JD Vance is to be held inside the Capitol Rotunda, which has a capacity of about 2,000 people. A person familiar with the issue yesterday said although the outdoor inauguration ceremony has been relocated, Taiwan’s legislative delegation has decided to head off to Washington as scheduled. The delegation
TRANSPORT CONVENIENCE: The new ticket gates would accept a variety of mobile payment methods, and buses would be installed with QR code readers for ease of use New ticketing gates for the Taipei metro system are expected to begin service in October, allowing users to swipe with cellphones and select credit cards partnered with Taipei Rapid Transit Corp (TRTC), the company said on Tuesday. TRTC said its gates in use are experiencing difficulty due to their age, as they were first installed in 2007. Maintenance is increasingly expensive and challenging as the manufacturing of components is halted or becoming harder to find, the company said. Currently, the gates only accept EasyCard, iPass and electronic icash tickets, or one-time-use tickets purchased at kiosks, the company said. Since 2023, the company said it
RSS