The OneOcean Port Vell Navy will host the MYBA Charter Show.

Up to 58 large boats are exposed from today and until Thursday at the Barcelona Navy OneOcean Port Vell, on the occasion of the MYBA Charter Show, the yacht trade fair. With 150 exhibitors and about 1,000 visitors from around the world, between industry professions and ship crews, the competition involves placing Barcelona on the international map of the superyacht rental industry.

Each of these floating works of art, between 23 and 95 meters long, generates about 9 jobs and leaves in the city where it is tied about a million euros a year. This is why the Barcelona Clúster Nàutic, an association that brings together 90 companies, claims that the nautical sector is an economic engine for Barcelona and for Catalonia, and works to consolidate the city as an international destination of the great length, to attract these ships to the marinas of the Barcelona coast, the modern OneOcean Port Vell and the new Marina Vela, but also to Vilanova Grand Marina and Mataró Marina Barcelona.

With the construction of Marina Vela and the work of expansion of these marinas (for these works between 2016 and 2017 are invested 46 million euros), Barcelona practically doubles its offer of moorings of recent years: it adds about 160 new moorings for large lengths, which are added to the 140 existing so far, and also with an increasing trend of moorings in capacity, to host units of greater length. In fact, recently OneOcean Port Vell has sold the largest mooring in the whole Mediterranean, for a 160-meter-long yacht.

"With only 5% of the world's traffic of these yachts are already filled these 300 positions of mooring, and the fact that the marines are filled is an economic impact of millions of euros for the city. Only in the industrial sector, in reference & repair, the expenditure could be more than 210 million euros a year, while the impact on ports would be about 70 million," explains Barcelona President Clúster Nàutic, Toni Tió.

The members of Barcelona Clúster Nàutic include these marinas and companies such as MB92, the world leader in reference (reforms) of these large ranges, but most of them are SMEs of six middle workers, who in many cases live from the ships that they tie in Barcelona. Attracting more yachts to the city, a goal for which the MYBA Charter Show serves as an ideal window, means exponentially increasing the income volume of these companies.

In fact, the superyacht sector generates an annual turnover of more than €2.25 billion worldwide, with significant growth expectations for the coming years.

According to a study carried out by the Cambra de Comerç in Barcelona, the 305 companies in Barcelona related to the nautical sector generate a total of 836 million euros of direct, indirect and induced economic impact and up to 8,300 jobs. The 90 associates of Barcelona Clúster Nàutic have a turnover of about 350 million euros.