June 9 (SeeNews) - Croatian tourism company ACI-Gitone will invest more than 50 million euro ($54 million) in a marina in Rijeka, the transport ministry said.
It is the biggest ever investment in nautical tourism in Croatia, the transport ministry said in a press release on Wednesday.
In May, the Croatian government granted a 30-year-concession to ACI-Gitone to build and use the port on a maritime property of almost 106,000 square meters at the tourism port of Porto Baros in Rijeka, on the northern Croatian Adriatic coast.
ACI-Gitone is a joint venture set up by marina operator Adriatic Croatia International Club (ACI), the largest chain of marinas in the Mediterranean, and local Gitone Kvarner, a tourism and hospitality services providing company, to build and operate the nautical tourism port of ACI Marina Rijeka as a 5-star-nautical tourism port.
The marina will have some 230 berths and will initially create more than 130 jobs, the town authorities of Rijeka said in a separate press release this week.
ACI’s shares last traded on Tuesday on the Zagreb bourse, when they ended flat at 960 euro.
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