October the 28th, 2021 - Croatian ACI marinas have been extremely popular ever since their arrival in the country, and with the coronavirus pandemic haven shaken the economy, it's more than encouraging to see that they have finally reached their pre-pandemic revenue levels.
As Poslovni Dnevnik/Marija Crnjak writes, thanks to the accelerated vaccination rollout and the highest standards of protection across all Croatian ACI marinas, as well as mitigation of epidemiological measures and the opening of borders in Croatia to tourists, the operating revenue of this chain of marinas increased by 20.1 million kuna in the third quarter of 2021, or 29 percent in the third quarter of last year, the company recently reported.
These results are at the level of the results achieved in the third quarter of the pre-pandemic record year of 2019. More specifically, ACI d.d. earned 88.7 million kuna in the third quarter of 2019, 69.4 million kuna last year, and 89.5 kuna million in the third quarter of this year.
"Looking at these results, with special emphasis placed on the results achieved in the third quarter of this year, we can say that we're extremely satisfied. All the activities we undertook to prepare for the tourist season, with the priority having been the health and safety of both our employees and our guests, ensured an increase in operating revenues and the season in the wake of 2019, which is something we'd wished for.
With the end of the nautical tourism season for this year and the beginning of its preparation of the next season, it should be emphasised that we're going ahead with the complete reconstruction of the breakwater on Korcula, and that we had investments that began after the end of the season - primarily in the Croatian ACI marinas of Dubrovnik, Trogir, Zut and Piskera, Rab, Milna and Vodice, which all represent significant investments. All of the above, as well as new projects launched during the year, indicate the dynamic period the company is currently in,'' said the director, Kristijan Pavic.
ACI also noted that this year, they established a joint company with GITONE Kvarner, which operates within the Lurssen Group. ACI-GITONE has applied for a concession for the construction and economic use of the nautical tourism port Porto Baros in Rijeka, the future ACI marina Rijeka, which is also the largest and most important nautical project in the history of the Republic of Croatia.
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