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Voyage EdgePAPPY 23November 8, 20262 min readAd-free
Anguilla Opens Fort Lauderdale Charter Talks Before $40M Marina Build
Caribbean infrastructure play targets superyacht winter season as Mediterranean allocations shift south.
Voyage Edge deskVoyage Edge · Huang GoodmanSource: AZ Central ↗
In plain words
Anguilla's **$40M** marina targets Eastern Caribbean berthing shortage with **€400** nightly rates, undercutting St. Barts by half.
$40 million
marina expansion before the 2025-26 winter season
150 feet
fuel logistics
30%
since 2022
12%
year-over-year as Greek and Croatian marinas added capacity faster…
Anguilla's tourism authority held closed-door meetings in Fort Lauderdale this month with charter brokers and yacht management firms, positioning the island for a $40 million marina expansion before the 2025-26 winter season. The meetings preceded formal infrastructure bids, signaling the territory expects to capture overflow from saturated Eastern Caribbean ports.
The Fort Lauderdale sessions focused on operational guarantees—berth reservations for vessels over 150 feet, fuel logistics, and customs pre-clearance for Caribbean charters. Anguilla currently handles eighteen superyacht visits per winter season through Road Bay's temporary moorings. The proposed expansion at Blowing Point would add twenty-four fixed berths and double fuel capacity, with construction starting Q3 2025 if permitting closes on schedule.
This matters because the Eastern Caribbean faces a berthing shortage that grew 30% since 2022, according to charter data from Fraser Yachts and Burgess. St. Barts turns away four vessels for every one it accommodates during February peak weeks. Antigua's Nelson's Dockyard operates at full capacity November through April. Anguilla sits eight nautical miles from St. Martin's Princess Juliana Airport, the region's private-aviation hub, creating a logistics advantage other underdeveloped islands lack.
The island's play is infrastructure arbitrage. Mediterranean charter yields dropped 12% year-over-year as Greek and Croatian marinas added capacity faster than demand grew. Meanwhile, Caribbean winter bookings rose 18% in 2024, per Northrop & Johnson's charter report. Anguilla's government structured the marina project as a public-private partnership, with 60% financing from Caribbean Development Bank infrastructure loans and 40% from a Bermuda-registered maritime operator whose name hasn't been disclosed. The financing structure suggests the project's internal return assumptions exceed 9%, the CDB's threshold for hospitality infrastructure.
Allocators with exposure to Caribbean luxury hospitality should track three developments. First, Anguilla's planning authority will publish final marina designs by March 2025—those documents will show whether the island is building for the 120-to-180-foot explorer-yacht segment or chasing 200-foot-plus displacement vessels that require different fuel and provisioning infrastructure. Second, watch St. Barts' January 2025 berthing rates—if they rise above €800 per linear meter per night, Anguilla's €400 target pricing becomes viable for cost-sensitive charterers. Third, monitor whether Anguilla's government extends its 8% corporate tax rate to marine service providers; that decision determines whether provisioning and crew-rotation businesses relocate from St. Martin.
The Caribbean Development Bank's infrastructure committee meets April 16, 2025 to review loan disbursements. That session will clarify whether Anguilla's marina timeline holds or slips into the 2026-27 season, a delay that would hand first-mover advantage to Dominica's competing Cabrits Marina project.
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