The month of October has a growth of 3% of total boat enrollments and a good demand performance in the nautical charter market (Photo Pedro Seoane)

The registration of recreational craft from January to October is a decrease of -16%, with a total of 5,439 records, compared with the same period of 2021. The market for the charter (rental of recreational boats) that this fall improves its data with respect to previous years, shows a fall in the registration of ships for commercial use of -1%, compared to the -1.8% recorded until September.

These are the data collected in the Energy - October 2022 Market Report, edited by ANEN on the basis of the data provided by the General Directorate of the Merchant Navy.

Following the forecast of the previous months, the nautical market keeps the fall of 16% in the accumulated year, improving one point the figure for the previous period (energy-September). This stability situation gives the sector some room to deal with the effects of the supply crisis, which has a greater impact on the segment of small boats and water motorcycles.

NATIC MARKET DATA

By length
In the period under review, vessels over 16 metres increase their enrolment by 4.7%. The rest of the length falls, with a higher incidence in the vessels between 12 and 16 (-25%).

By type of vessel,The water bikes have the greatest fall (-30.6%), followed by sailboats (-14.4%), motor vessels (-10.5%), folding pneumatic vessels (-8.6%) and semi-rigid pneumatic vessels (-5.9%).

The rental marketwhich accounts for 34.3% of the global nautical market, it has 1,864 registration of vessels for commercial use (nautical charter) until October of this year, improving by almost one point the fall of the preceding period to be at -1%,

Except for the registration of rental water bikes that remain in negative use
(-24%), the other charter vessels increase their registration, with the number of sailboats (30%) and the number of semi-rigid vessels (155%) outsourced.

Enrolment by province
In the year's cumulative, Catalonia and the Balearic Islands remain the Autonomous Communities with the highest nautical activity, with market shares of 20.3% and 19.1%, respectively.

In the computation of enrolment, with the exception of certain coastal areas in the north such as Guipúzcoa and Cantabria, where a little more than 11% increase continues, and Girona where 1.5% increase, the rest of the provinces maintain the falls of the previous months, in line with the situation on the nautical market.

In the charter market,the Balearic Islands continues to lead this market (32% share) and record a growth of the registration for charter (28.9%). It is also worth noting the increase in the registration of vessels for rent in the coastal territories of Ceuta, Cadiz, Las Palmas, Tarragona and Cantabria.

Enrolment by EU Provinces - October 2022.
Source: ANEN with DGMM data