Due to their own incompetence or the irresponsibility of the competent institutions to complete the work, the state is also losing huge amounts of money this year due to the fact that numerous yachts visiting the Bay of Kotorska, especially the Tivat Bay, are anchored in all possible places and at the same time they do not pay anyone anything.
The most illustrative example of how much business entities are losing, whose main activity is the provision of mooring services to yachts in marinas, and with them the state, which calculates a reduced VAT rate of seven percent on mooring services, is the superyacht "Eclipse", which belongs to a Russian oligarch. Roman Abramovich, which normally has assets of over 13 billion euros. That ship, which is 163 meters long and has a displacement of 13.564 tons, has been anchored in the bay for six days since it arrived in Tivat from Dubrovnik, about 600 meters from Tivat's city waterfront Pina, i.e. about 500 meters from pier 1 of the Porto Montenegro marina. paying not a cent for it. If by any chance he had tied up in that marina, "Eclipse" would have paid Porto Montenegro 5.656 euros every day, now in the peak of the summer nautical season, of which 365 euros per day would have gone directly to the state budget in the name of VAT. Since August 5, when the imposing yacht worth about 300 million euros sailed into Boka, until today, due to the fact that the "Eclipse" is free at anchor, and not tied up in the marina, at the prices of superyacht berths in Porto Montenegro, only the state is lost almost 2.200 euros of VAT.
A similar situation existed for days before with the also imposing 101-meter long superyacht "I Dynasty", which was anchored for a long time southwest of the Tunja shallows, near the island of Our Lady of Mercy in the Gulf of Tivat. That yacht would pay 2.951 euros for a daily berth in Porto Montenegro, from which the state budget would earn 207 euros each day. The owner of that ship is a Kazakh tycoon Alijan Ibragimov who disposes of a fortune worth two billion euros.
Every day, the people of Tiv can see from their waterfront at least twenty larger or smaller yachts anchored free of charge in the bay, mostly on the northeast side of the island of Sveti Marko, but also on its south and west sides towards the coast of Krtol. None of these ships pay a cent for being at anchor for days, and the people who stay on them enjoy the sea and the beauty of the Tivat Bay for free. From most of these yachts, only occasionally one of the people who chartered the yachts is transferred to the shore in smaller tender boats to visit one of the local catering facilities, or only the yacht crew comes in that way to take out heaps of garbage bags from the ship, which then they dump in the nearest public container on the coast.
Foreign yachtsmen who exchange experiences from the various destinations they visit on specialized platforms on the Internet cannot be surprised that in Boka, in the Gulf of Tivat, they can anchor their yachts wherever they want and that no one warns them about it, and that, on top of that, above all, anchorage is completely free. There is no such thing in any competitive destination in the area, and especially not in united Croatia, where the issue of anchoring yachts is very precisely and strictly regulated, and every officially designated anchorage where sailors can only anchor has its own operator and charges for anchoring and other services. any services provided by the anchorage operator to the anchored yacht.
There is no such thing in Montenegro, despite the constant warnings of the interested public that this favors rich yachtsmen, from whom the state, knowingly or not, simply does not know how to take money, if it does not want to protect its own nature. Namely, while the yacht is at anchor and not tied up in the marina, it makes significantly more negative impacts on the environment, starting with exhaust gases from the operation of the auxiliary engines-electric units that supply the ship with electricity, through damage by the anchor and anchor chains to valuable or protected species on the seabed, such as sea grass-posidonia, to the frequent throwing of various waste directly into the sea from the yacht or the uncontrolled spilling of the contents of the ship's tanks for the so-called gray water.
In Croatia, the stay of yachts in such anchorages is charged daily at a price of seven euros per square meter of the ship, or at the rate of 50 percent of the price of daily berths in the nearest marina, if the anchorage is directly in its vicinity. All additional services provided to the ship, starting with the acceptance of garbage or the contents of gray water tanks, are paid additionally by sailors to the anchorage operator. Officially, there is only one anchorage in the Tivat Bay, northwest of Porto Montenegro marina, in the water area in front of the Donja Lastva settlement, but there are almost never any yachts anchored there. All those vessels at anchor remain in other parts of the bay where they should not do so, but the Navigation Safety Inspection has so far not adequately prevented them from doing so, nor has the Maritime Administration, which is responsible for managing the water area, officially determined so far, with the indication of their precise geographical coordinates, declared parts of the water area of the Tivat Bay as official anchorages that would have their own operator.
Therefore, all pledges and promises, e.g. The municipality of Tivat that order will be introduced in the way in which yachts are anchored in the water area in front of that city, has so far only remained a dead letter, and the local economy and the state budget because of this nonsense, are losing huge amounts of money every day that remain in the pockets of rich yachtsmen.
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