Marina at Keppel Bay (Singapore)

A private island built for superyachts, not for cruising

The marina occupies a roughly five-hectare island connected to the mainland by the Keppel Bay Bridge, a 250 m cable-stayed span that opened on 3 January 2008 and carries both road traffic and pedestrians. Bellingham Marine, the same builder later used at ONE15, designed and built the pontoon system in three stages, with the final piers, which added the dedicated superyacht berths, completed in February 2011. The marina was the first in Asia to be awarded 5 Gold Anchors by the Marina Industries Association Australia, and went on to take Best Asian Marina in 2010 and International Marina of the Year in both 2013 and 2014.

Where ONE15 sits inside the gated, island-bound world of Sentosa Cove, Keppel Bay is a mainland address inside Singapore's Greater Southern Waterfront, wedged between the container cranes of Keppel Terminal and the Reflections at Keppel Bay towers designed by Daniel Libeskind. The site itself carries real maritime history: Keppel Harbour was named for Captain Henry Keppel, who charted it in 1848, and Keppel Shipyard operated from this stretch of water from 1968 until its docks relocated west to Tuas and Jurong. The marina inherited the name and the water, not the yard.

Getting there, and arriving by sea

There is no dedicated marina transfer service published, so most owners and guests simply taxi in from Changi, a journey of 20 to 23 minutes depending on traffic, or come by MRT to HarbourFront or Telok Blangah and walk or taxi the last stretch across the Keppel Bay Bridge. The marina's own shuttle and footbridge connect it directly to VivoCity and HarbourFront Centre for onward travel.

By sea, a yacht approaches through or along the edge of the Singapore Strait, working past a continuous flow of tankers and container ships before turning into the sheltered Keppel Bay basin behind the bridge. The marina monitors VHF channel 77, the same working channel Singapore Marine Guide publishes for Raffles Marina's clearance office and for ONE15. Any vessel over 300 gross tons needs a licensed pilot to board it outside the Eastern or Western Anchorage before it can proceed into port waters, and bunkering is best arranged at the port of arrival or departure rather than adding a second pilotage call.

Singapore's competition regulator opened an in-depth review of the sale in July 2026, on the theory that Marina at Keppel Bay and ONE15 are each other's closest rival in the city, which is exactly why an owner might want today's berth locked in before one operator ends up owning both marinas in Singapore.

Clearing customs without a customs post of your own

Singapore requires every arriving or departing pleasure craft to engage a licensed shipping agent, who files the vessel's details through the digitalPORT@sg system no earlier than 72 hours and no later than 6 hours before arrival, and fits the boat with AIS before it enters Singapore waters. Every crew member is issued a Not To Land notice by default; anyone who wants to go ashore needs a Landing Pass, applied for through the agent, and all passengers must submit a Singapore Arrival Card first.

Singapore Marine Guide names only two marinas gazetted for an on-site CIQP office: ONE15 Marina and Raffles Marina. Keppel Bay is not one of them, so the agent either walks the crew to one of the three public immigration piers for clearance, or arranges water or land transport to ONE15 or Raffles to clear there directly, a step that ONE15's own berth holders skip entirely. A foreign-flagged yacht that wants to stay and move between Singapore marinas also needs a separate cruising permit, arranged through the agent or the marina, with an online assessment to complete first.

Booking a berth, and what it actually costs

Marina at Keppel Bay ties its general berths to a Principal membership, open only to owners of a Keppel Bay residential unit, or an Associate membership, open to tenants and purchasers and their immediate family. The marina also takes transient visiting yachts outside that structure, but only through a direct berthing enquiry, and checked on 25 September 2026 no daily, weekly, monthly or annual rate appears anywhere on its own site or in any of the marina directories that list it. That is a real gap next to ONE15, which publishes its full SGD-per-foot tariff for anyone to see.

For the largest yachts the arrangement is different again. Singapore Marine Guide's entry-exit page for superyachts names Keppel Island's east wharf as one of only two berths in Singapore built for vessels over 80 m, alongside a berth at the HarbourFront Cruise Centre, and says both must be booked through an agent experienced with that class of berth. Of the marina's 168 total berths, third-party directories put only 22 in the dedicated superyacht category, so an owner above 280 feet should treat the east wharf as a separate, bespoke booking rather than an extension of the standard tariff, whatever that tariff turns out to be.

Power, fuel and the fluids

Power and water are metered per berth through individual service pedestals, a design that dates to the marina's original build rather than a later retrofit. Singapore's mains supply runs 230 V single phase or 400 V three-phase at 50 Hz, so a 125 Amp three-phase connection works out to roughly 87 kVA, in the same range as the supply ONE15 publishes across the water and enough to run a large yacht's air conditioning continuously through Singapore's steady heat without falling back on generators.

Fuel is sold from a dedicated petrol and diesel dock, though the marina does not publish its hours or its bulk-discount terms, checked 25 September 2026. Waste handling is split by vessel class: a reticulated vacuum sewer pump-out system serves the general berths under 80 feet, while the superyacht berths from 100 to 590 feet each get an individual black and grey water outlet rather than sharing the vacuum line. Access is controlled by a contactless facial-recognition system at the pontoon gates, backed by 24-hour security and a Mobotix camera network the marina describes as a virtual fence.

Life on the pontoon, and what is actually within walking distance

On the quay itself, dining runs from BLEU, a modern French room facing the water, to Ristorante Palermo's Italian menu and a handful of Asian and fusion rooms including Takumi and The Connoisseur Concerto. The marina's own clubhouse is built around a distinctive tensile-fabric roof shaped, per its architects, like a filled spinnaker sail, a genuine piece of yacht-inspired design rather than a generic function room. Members also get an RYA-certified sailing academy on site, run under the Keppel Bay name.

Beyond the pontoons, the free resident shuttle to VivoCity runs roughly every 15 to 30 minutes, and the walk to Telok Blangah MRT from the neighbouring Reflections at Keppel Bay towers is about five minutes, with HarbourFront Centre and VivoCity themselves only a few minutes further. After dark, the marina's own dining strip and clubhouse lounge stay open to members and berth holders; for more, VivoCity's cinemas and bars or a taxi to Sentosa's beach clubs are the nearest options, since Keppel Bay itself is a quiet residential precinct once the restaurants close.

No storm season, but no haul-out either

It is easy to assume a marina carrying the Keppel name sits inside a working shipyard, but the yard that once occupied this exact stretch of water, established in 1968 out of the old PSA Dockyard Department, relocated its graving docks to Tuas and Jurong long before the marina itself was built. What is left on Keppel Island is berthing and lifestyle infrastructure only: no crane, no slipway, no yard trades on the pontoon.

Singapore sits close enough to the equator that neither typhoons nor named cyclones ever reach it, the same structural advantage ONE15 enjoys across the water, so a yacht based here needs no seasonal haul-out plan for weather. What it does need is a real answer for routine maintenance: general engineering, electronics and interior trades operate around Singapore's marinas, but a full repaint or structural work means a passage to Batam, Indonesia, or to the commercial yards on Singapore's western side, the same round trip an ONE15 berth holder faces.

A boat show it really did host, and one it never did

Boat Asia 2011, the 19th edition of the region's leisure-boat and lifestyle event, ran here over four days in June 2011 and drew more than 10,000 visitors. Exhibitors including Horizon, Sunseeker, Bayliner and Lagoon placed over ten boat orders on site; Horizon's managing director Annie Lin confirmed the show's largest yacht, an EP105, sold to a Chinese buyer on the third day, and Sunseeker Asia's Gordon Hui called it the best edition yet. It is a real, dated, sourced event on Marina at Keppel Bay's own record.

It is not, however, the Singapore Yacht Show, which launched at ONE15 Marina in 2011 and ran there through 2019, nor its current successor the Singapore Yachting Festival, which is scheduled at ONE15 Marina Sentosa Cove for 23 to 26 April 2026. SUTL Enterprise, ONE15's owner, has said publicly that if its purchase of Keppel Bay completes it plans a satellite expansion of the Yachting Festival across both marinas, so a future edition may well touch this site. As of today that is a stated plan, not a booked event.

Who actually owns Marina at Keppel Bay right now

SUTL Enterprise's chief executive Arthur Tay announced the SGD 40 million deal at the end of December 2025, saying it would enlarge ONE15's regional footprint and make the group the largest integrated marina owner in Singapore, with 436 berths across both sites once combined. The plan on completion is to rebrand the marina ONE15 Marina Keppel Bay, invest in clubhouse and berthing upgrades, add retail space and extend ONE15's coral-garden and Blue Water EduFest environmental programmes here. Keppel Ltd, renamed from Keppel Corporation on 1 January 2024 as it restructured into an asset manager, listed the marina among the non-core, legacy assets it is divesting.

The deal is not a formality. Singapore's Competition and Consumer Commission completed a Phase 1 review on 27 April 2026 and raised concerns that Marina at Keppel Bay and ONE15 are each other's closest rivals in the city's premium marina segment; it rejected SUTL's proposed remedies in May and opened an in-depth Phase 2 review on 23 July 2026. The parties have already pushed their long-stop date back once, from 31 July 2026 to 4 January 2027, while the marina lot itself works through a separate land-title condition. For anyone weighing a berth here now, that means the operator, the branding and quite possibly the price could all be different by this time next year.

Whether your yacht actually fits, and how deep the water really is

PredictWind's own marina data logs a depth of 2 to 3 m at mean low water for the general basin, a figure consistent with a marina built mainly for craft well under the headline 280-foot maximum. Dockwalk's directory listing instead states a maximum draught of 10 m for the same marina, a number that would be unusually deep for anywhere outside a dedicated superyacht wall. Checked 25 September 2026, Marina at Keppel Bay publishes neither figure itself, so the gap between the two third-party numbers is exactly the kind of thing to settle with the marina office before arrival rather than after grounding on the way in.

The same caution applies to size. Of the marina's 168 berths, outside directories put only 22 in the dedicated superyacht category, and Singapore Marine Guide's own account of the port's superyacht infrastructure names Keppel Island's east wharf as the specific spot, alongside the HarbourFront Cruise Centre, where a vessel over 80 m can actually lie. That is a genuine capability beyond ONE15's published 220-foot ceiling, but it is not a walk-up booking: it runs through an agent experienced with that scale of berth, on a basin whose depth the marina itself has never put in writing.

Für wen: An owner who wants a mainland Singapore berth minutes from HarbourFront, VivoCity and Changi rather than the more insular Sentosa Cove, and who can live with an operator that publishes no rate card and may change hands and branding within the year.