The nation has recorded a double-digit growth in the number of registered yachts, dedicated yacht berths and yacht operating licenses issued in the past five years, the Maritime and Port Bureau said yesterday.
The bureau said it has in the past few years improved the port infrastructure and service for yachts across the nation in line with its vision to create and boost a “blue tourism and recreation economy.”
From 2021 to last year, the number of yacht operating licenses increased 57 percent to 31,637, while the number of registered yachts rose 35 percent to 1,636, bureau data showed.
Photo: Tsai Yun-jung, Taipei Times
As of last year, 1,437 parking spaces were available for yachts across the nation, up 38 percent from 2021, the bureau said.
Twenty-eight more parking spaces for yachts would be available this year, it added.
The bureau attributed the significant increase in yacht-related indicators to the continual improvement of the Taiwan Yacht Portal (https://yachtintaiwan.azurewebsites.net/En/), which has offered one-stop service to more than 8.4 million users.
The bureau said that more people have been motivated to try operating yachts after it shared a video on YouTube, which has drawn 34,000 views.
It said that it aims to further boost yacht activities this year in seaports and fishing ports by introducing around-the-island and island-hopping yacht tours.
Taiwan ranked fourth globally in terms of orders for large power yachts in 2023, and 73.1 percent of its yacht exports that year were shipped to the US, an industry report by the RINAutic magazine showed.
Taiwan’s yacht production value rose to about NT$6.8 billion (US$213.27 million) in the first 10 months of 2023, official data showed.
In the same year, total orders for large yachts were 87.9 percent higher than in 2018.
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