February 23rd, 2022 - Mitan Marina in Novi Vinodolski will soon be the first marina in Croatia to have an equal number of dry and wet slips, with a total count of 320 berths

Located in Muroskva Bay in Novi Vinodolski, Mitan Marina currently has 160 berths for boats up to 15 metres in length and can also accommodate mega yachts on the outer side of the front breakwater.

Following last year’s successful sailing season, a second hangar for dry boat storage is about to opened in their dry marina, writes Novi list. Both hangars are heated, have a surface area of 330 square metres each, and can accommodate a total of 160 boats combined.

‘We’re limited when it comes to expansion on the coast because of terrain configuration and the breakwater at the exit from the marina, but we have a good opportunity to expand our dry storage capacities in the industrial zone of Novi Vinodolski, located in the nearby Vinodol Valley’, said Mitan Marina Director Tomislav Salopek.

Mitan Marina is owned by Croatian entrepreneur Vanja Špiljak, who lives in Switzerland. He supports the initiatives of the management headed by director Salopek, as they work to execute their plans for expansion.

After the second hangar for dry berthing is put into use, Mitan Marina will become the first marina in Croatia to have an equal number of wet and dry slips, 160 each, for a total of 320 berths.

‘Apart from the upcoming opening of the second hangar for dry boat storage, we’re planning to build six new apartments in the vicinity of Mitan Marina, on the shore of Muroskva Bay located at the eastern point of entrance to the city. The apartments will have a surface area of 55 square metres each, with a concrete beach and a sunbathing area built in front’, said Salopek.

He confirmed that the other six apartments they already manage had a great occupancy rate, with half their guests being clients of the marina, and the other half tourists who visited Novi Vinodolski without their boats.

November 5, 2021 - After it was believed that they had to pay an additional cost due to being considered sub-concessions, this raised a series of concerns, but in the end, there will be no additional taxation for Marinas in Croatia, as it was all a misunderstanding, points the Croatian Chamber of Commerce.

As reported by HrTurizam, the announcement that ancillary activities in marinas will be treated as sub-concessions raised a real storm among members of the HGK Marina Association, but after talks with representatives of the Ministry of the Sea, Transport and Infrastructure (MMPI) it was determined that there was a misunderstanding and that the concession fee remained unchanged and no additional taxation for Marinas will be done, reports the Croatian Chamber of Commerce.

"We remind you that in early September, members of the Association of Marinas of the Croatian Chamber of Commerce received a notification on the calculation of concession fees for concession holders who have concluded contracts on sub-concessions, informing them that all sub-concession activities will be additionally taxed. 

Therefore, the Association of Marina HGK at its last session, held as part of the Biograd Boat Show, hosted Nina Perko, Director of the Maritime Administration at MMPI, to warn the relevant institutions of the serious consequences for the entire nautical sector if such a method of calculating the concession or sub-concession fees. Representatives of the marinas pointed out that they are already paying a fixed and variable part in the name of the concession on the maritime domain.

“The fixed part is paid on the basis of the occupied area, and the variable part on the basis of income. All this is included in the total income, of which the marinas pay a certain percentage in the name of the variable part ", explained the president of the HGK Marina Association Sean Lisjak, adding that after talks with director Perko they found that the disputed letter was misinterpreted. in no way does it refer to ancillary activities such as catering, charter, and various services performed on the premises of marinas, but exclusively to those activities with which marinas have concluded Sub-Concession Agreements. 

In the end, it was concluded that the calculation of the concession fee for concession holders in relation to ancillary activities remains unchanged", reads the statement of the Croatian Chamber of Commerce.

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