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CHARTER MARK We are helping unleash the potential of the boat charter market, Vincent Ruiz , partner at Clickandboat Malta, says.
What is clickandboat.com? Clickandboat.com is a highly acclaimed online platform or website if you prefer, offering online peer-to-peer boat rental. It’s pretty much the Airbnb for boats. The boat owner can upload his boat free of charge on our website and providing that the boat has a valid commercial vessel certificate as per the requirements of Transport Malta, they are able to engage directly with boat renters. It is the owner’s decision as to what price the boat will be rented at and as to when the boat is available. All this is managed via a very user-friendly online dashboard or via the mobile applications
(Google Play or iOS). Currently our website gets an average 28,000 unique visitors each day. It is a great and efficient way to either breakeven of your annual cost of ownership or better even to make money out of your boat. Why did you decide to start operating in Malta? Well, for a number of reasons. In Malta we have 15,700 boats (less than 24m) active on the small ship registry, yet only 211 are commercial vessel certificate registered. This combined with the fact that we have a yearly flow of 1.8 million tourists and that on an island, they are likely to want to boat, providing the offer is accessible, clear, visible
and adequately priced, it became a no brainer. We also felt it was totally appropriate to commit towards the authorities to only offer charters on our site for boats and operators that are compliant with laws and regulations. This will hopefully contribute to structuring the charter market and unleash its true potential, ultimately resulting in growing the market. In Malta we have numerous websites offering charters yet I find that some of those websites are not engaging and lack in clarity on price, availability and online payment systems. I see clickandboat.com as an aggregator that reaches potential customers that are abroad, such as France, Italy, Spain, the UK and Germany. The idea is to help make boat