Marina Port de Mallorca / STP Palma

| Lage | Palma de Mallorca, Balearen, Spanien |
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| Betreiber | STP Shipyard Palma, mit der benachbarten Marina Port de Mallorca für das Liegen im Wasser |
| Werftkapazität | Yachten bis rund 120m und 1.000 Tonnen |
| Neue Liegeplätze | ergänzte Positionen für Yachten bis etwa 110m |
| Fläche | mehr als 160.000 Quadratmeter Werft und Werkstätten |
| Modell | offene Werft, bei der Eigner ihre eigenen Auftragnehmer wählen |
| Branchenveranstaltung | die Palma International Boat Show jedes Frühjahr |
| Open yard | owners appoint their own contractors from over 500 specialist companies on site, with a daily workforce above 1,500 |
| February 2026 | STP launched large-refit capability for vessels up to 115 m LOA at new facilities |
| For yachts over 50 m afloat | STP's own berthing area, or Club de Mar Mallorca with over 500 berths, more than 40 superyacht positions and a 170 m maximum |
| Certification | STP holds ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 45001, and the marina holds Blue Flag, EMAS and ISO 9001 |
| Next fixed date | Palma International Boat Show, 28 April to 1 May 2027 |
| Haul and launch, 2025 published maximum tariff, charged as one operation: EUR 6,964.34 high season and EUR 5,878.98 low season at 40 m, EUR 3,869.08 and EUR 3,265.87 at 30 m, EUR 1,061.24 and EUR 1,029.08 at 20 m | |
| Above 40 m the 40 m rate applies plus 10 per cent for every metre over 40 m, so a 60 m yacht is three times the 40 m figure | |
| Movement within the storage area 40 per cent of the tariff, suspension from the water 60 per cent | |
| Hardstanding | EUR 0.930 per square metre a day for days 1 to 15 and EUR 1.080 from day 16 in high season, EUR 0.720 and EUR 0.790 in low, liquid waste removal included |
| Dry dock pit occupation | hardstanding rate plus 20 per cent |
| Berth for a yacht under repair | EUR 0.710 per square metre a day high season, EUR 0.570 low |
| Low season at STP is January, July, August and December. Everything else is high season | |
| Water and electricity are the Balearic Port Authority's Palma tariffs plus 15 per cent handling. Refuse EUR 7.13 per 100 litre bag plus EUR 0.10 per square metre of boat per day, plus 50 per cent if hazardous. Telephone and data are supplier rates plus 10 per cent | |
| Ancillaries | hull cleaning EUR 4.30 per square metre, compressed air EUR 31.51 a day, ladder to 2 m EUR 14.29 a day, parking EUR 1.430 an hour, covered premises EUR 42.99 per square metre a month |
| Worked example | a 45 m yacht on a 9 m beam, hauled in October for thirty days, pays EUR 10,446.51 for haul and launch and EUR 12,210.75 for the hardstanding, EUR 22,657.26 of yard tariff before contractors |
| Formalities | entry and exit declarations are made in person at the maritime border post in the Port of Palma with all crew passports, seaman's books or on-board contracts, current crew list and ship's registration certificate |
| Border post public hours 08:00 to 14:00 Monday to Friday, with out-of-hours cases by telephone appointment only | |
Die Servicehauptstadt des Mittelmeers
STP Shipyard Palma liegt im Handelshafen von Palma de Mallorca, neben den Marinas und Werften, die die Stadt zu einem Zentrum des Yachtgewerbes machen. Palma ist in diese Rolle gewachsen, weil ihr Flughafen, ihr Arbeitskräftepotenzial und ihre Lage auf den Balearen alle dafür sprechen. Die Werft und die angrenzende Marina Port de Mallorca sind Teil einer dichten Ansammlung von Liegeplätzen und Werkstätten entlang der Uferzone. Das ganze Gebiet ist auf das praktische Geschäft ausgerichtet, große Yachten am Laufen zu halten.
STP arbeitet nach einem offenen Werftmodell, das Eignern und Kapitänen erlaubt, ihre eigenen Auftragnehmer zu wählen, statt über eine einzige Werft zu arbeiten. Dieser Ansatz hat Hunderte von Spezialfirmen nach Palma gezogen und die Stadt zu einem Magneten für Refit-Arbeiten gemacht. Marina und Werft zusammen decken sowohl das Liegen im Wasser als auch die Kranung ab. Der Schwerpunkt liegt durchgehend auf Servicetiefe und nicht auf dem Glanz einer Resort-Marina.
Liegeplätze und die Kranwerft
STP hat sich stetig erweitert und bewältigt auf seiner Freilagerfläche heute Yachten bis rund 120 Meter und 1.000 Tonnen, wobei jüngere Arbeiten Liegeplätze für Yachten bis etwa 110 Meter ergänzt haben. Die Gesamtfläche umfasst mehr als 160.000 Quadratmeter Werft und Werkstätten. Die benachbarte Marina Port de Mallorca stellt das Liegen im Wasser für Yachten neben der Werft bereit. Zusammen decken sie sowohl die nasse als auch die trockene Seite ab, eine große Yacht zu unterhalten.
Die Travellifte und die Freilagerfläche der Werft erlauben es Eignern, erhebliche Yachten für Arbeiten am Rumpf und für die Lackierung aus dem Wasser zu nehmen. Liegeplätze in den umliegenden Marinas passen zu Yachten, die den Winter über oder zwischen zwei Aufträgen in Palma bleiben. Das Gebiet fertigt über seine gebündelten Anlagen jährlich Tausende von Fahrzeugen ab. Für einen Eigner, der vor einem Refit steht, ist die Ballung von Kapazität in einem Hafen der wesentliche Reiz. Termine für die größten Kranungen sind lange im Voraus vergeben, da nur eine Handvoll Werften an dieser Küste Yachten in dieser Größenordnung heben kann.

Der Maschinenraum der Refit-Branche im Mittelmeer.
Eine offene Werft und eine tiefe Gewerkebasis
Die Stärke Palmas ist die schiere Zahl an Gewerken in unmittelbarer Nähe des Kais. Das offene Modell von STP bedeutet, dass ein Eigner Lackierer und Ingenieure seiner Wahl hinzuziehen kann, und die Stadt hält genug davon bereit, um fast jedes Projekt zu besetzen. Werkstätten und Ausrüster säumen den Hafen. Wenige Orte in Europa erreichen diese Dichte an maritimer Fachkenntnis. Qualifizierte Gewerke lassen sich den Winter über kurzfristig anheuern, was die Projektzeitpläne straff hält.
Über die Werft hinaus bietet Palma den Treibstoff und die Proviantierung, die eine arbeitende Yacht braucht, dazu ausgezeichnete Flugverbindungen für Crew und Ersatzteile. Die Palma International Boat Show bringt jedes Frühjahr die Branche zusammen und markiert den Beginn der Saison. Die Stadt selbst ist eine angenehme Basis für die Crew während eines langen Refits. Diese Verbindung aus Gewerketiefe und Lebensqualität ist der Grund, weshalb so viele Yachten hier überwintern.

Eine Refit-Saison und ein balearischer Sommer
Die geschäftigste Zeit Palmas ist die Refit-Saison über Herbst und Winter, wenn die Sommerflotte zur Überholung vor dem nächsten Jahr hereinkommt. Die Werften laufen von Oktober bis zum Frühjahr an der Kapazitätsgrenze, und die Stadt füllt sich mit Crews auf Winterprojekten. Wenn der Sommer näher rückt, richtet sich die Aufmerksamkeit auf die Fahrtsaison und die balearischen Gewässer vor der Tür. Die betriebsamen Monate liegen hier im Winter, wenn die Ferienhäfen still werden.
Wenn die Saison dann kommt, bietet Mallorca einige der besten Reviere im westlichen Mittelmeer, von den Calas der Nordküste bis zum Schlag hinüber nach Ibiza und Formentera. Die Bucht von Palma selbst ist ein feines Segelrevier und regelmäßiger Austragungsort von Regatten. Eigner können von einem Winter-Refit direkt in einen Sommer mit Fahrten vor Ort übergehen. Diese Durchgängigkeit gehört zu dem, was Yachten Jahr für Jahr in Palma stationiert hält.
Wo er in die Pläne eines Eigners passt
Der Palma-Cluster passt zu einem Eigner, der die Instandhaltung ebenso ernst nimmt wie das Fahren. Er ist der natürliche Ort, um eine Yacht für Winter-Refit und Winterlager zu stationieren, mit den Gewerken und der Krankapazität für größere Arbeiten. Von Palma aus liegt das gesamte westliche Mittelmeer für den Sommer in erreichbarer Nähe. Wenige Heimathäfen verbinden Service und Fahrtrevier so wirkungsvoll. Der Flughafen wird aus ganz Europa direkt angeflogen, was zählt, wenn Teile oder Spezialisten die Yacht schnell erreichen müssen.
Für viele große Yachten ist Palma gerade deshalb der Heimathafen, weil STP und seine Nachbarn so viel leisten können. Ein Eigner kann die Yacht in Dienst halten, sie durch ein Refit bringen und die Balearen befahren, ohne die Basis zu wechseln. Diese Praxistauglichkeit und keine gesellschaftliche Szene ist der Reiz. Es ist das arbeitende Herz der Mittelmeerflotte.

Standards, waste and security
STP holds ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 45001, carbon footprint certification and UN Global Compact membership. Marina Port de Mallorca carries a Blue Flag, EMAS registration and ISO 9001. For an owner that matters because paint, solvent and wash-down handling in a yard of this size is exactly where an environmental problem becomes the yacht's problem.
Security is 24 hour with camera coverage on the marina side, and the commercial port perimeter adds a layer beyond that. Privacy during a refit is limited in the sense that hundreds of contractors move across the site daily, which is a consideration for owners who care about what is photographed inside their boat. Serious owners write confidentiality into contractor terms.
The city, the crew and the airport
Palma is the reason the industry settled here and not somewhere cheaper. It is a real city with a cathedral, an old town, restaurants that stay open in January and housing that crew can actually live in, so the skilled labour stays through the winter. That is the difference between a yard that can be staffed and one that cannot.
Palma's airport is one of the best-connected in the Mediterranean, minutes from the port, with direct flights from across Europe year-round and a summer schedule that is close to saturation. For a refit that matters more than it sounds, because a specialist or a part can reach the yacht the same day. For an owner it means joining the boat is easy in every month of the year.

The season, which runs backwards
Palma's busy period is the opposite of everywhere else in this guide. The yards run hard from October to spring while the resort ports are shut, and the city fills with crew on winter projects. Space in the yard and the marinas is tightest in exactly the months when Porto Cervo is empty.
The turn comes with the Palma International Boat Show, which marks the start of the season and is scheduled for 28 April to 1 May in 2027. From there the fleet moves out into the Balearics, and Mallorca's north coast calas, the run to Ibiza and Formentera and the racing in the bay carry the summer. An owner can finish a refit and be cruising the same week without a delivery passage.

The honest downside
It is an industrial site and it looks like one. Paint tents, dust, noise, forklifts and a working commercial port are the view, and no owner should plan to entertain guests aboard while the yacht is in the yard. The afloat marina caps at 50 metres, so a large yacht is split between operators and the neat single-address arrangement that Porto Montenegro or Barcelona offers does not exist here.
Two other things need settling before a yacht bases in the Balearics. Spain levies a matriculation charge of 12 per cent, and the exemption for exclusive charter use has historically been limited to yachts under 15 metres with a reform to remove that threshold proposed and unresolved, so take Spanish advice first. And the posidonia anchoring rules that now govern the Balearics constrain where the yacht can lie once the refit is over.
What a lift actually costs, from the published tariff
STP works under a concession from the Balearic Port Authority, which means its maximum tariffs are a matter of public record rather than a quotation. On the 2025 schedule a haul and launch, charged as a single operation, costs EUR 6,964.34 in high season for a yacht of 40 m and EUR 5,878.98 in low season. A 30 m yacht is EUR 3,869.08 and EUR 3,265.87, and a 20 m yacht is EUR 1,061.24 and EUR 1,029.08. Above 40 m the published table stops and a rule takes over: the 40 m rate applies with an increase of 10 per cent for every metre of length above 40 m. Moving a yacht within the storage area is charged at 40 per cent of the tariff and suspending her from the water at 60 per cent.
The rule above 40 m is steep enough to be worth working out before a slot is booked. A 50 m yacht is the 40 m rate plus 100 per cent, or EUR 13,928.68 in high season. A 60 m yacht is the 40 m rate plus 200 per cent, EUR 20,893.02. Hardstanding is separate and charged by area, at EUR 0.930 per square metre a day in high season for the first fifteen days and EUR 1.080 from day sixteen, against EUR 0.720 and EUR 0.790 in low season, with liquid waste removal included and no additional charge permitted for it. A yacht in one of the dry dock pits pays the hardstanding rate plus 20 per cent. Water and electricity are the Port Authority's own Palma tariffs with 15 per cent added as a handling charge, refuse is EUR 7.13 for a 100 litre bag plus EUR 0.10 per square metre of boat per day and half as much again if it is hazardous, and telephone and data are the supplier's rates plus 10 per cent. The schedule is silent on VAT.
The season that runs backwards, written into the tariff
The clearest proof that Palma works against the Mediterranean calendar is in the yard's own definition of its seasons. Low season at STP is January, July, August and December. Those are the four months when the fleet is either laid up over Christmas or out cruising, and the yard discounts them. High season is everything else, which is to say the spring and autumn refit windows when every yacht in the western Mediterranean wants a slot at the same time. A berth held alongside for a yacht under repair costs EUR 0.710 per square metre a day in high season and EUR 0.570 in low, again with liquid waste removal included.
Worked through, a 45 m motor yacht on a 9 m beam hauled in October for a month of work pays EUR 10,446.51 for the haul and launch, which is the 40 m rate plus 50 per cent, then EUR 5,649.75 for the first fifteen days on the hard and EUR 6,561.00 for the next fifteen on a 405 square metre footprint. That is EUR 22,657.26 of yard tariff before a single contractor invoice. The identical job in August, in the yard's low season, is EUR 8,818.47 for the lift and EUR 9,173.25 for the thirty days ashore. Ancillaries are published on the same schedule and add up quietly: hull cleaning at EUR 4.30 per square metre, compressed air at EUR 31.51 a day, a ladder up to 2 m at EUR 14.29 a day, parking at EUR 1.430 an hour and covered premises for a contractor at EUR 42.99 per square metre a month.
Who clears the yacht, and the six-hour window
Palma is where a yacht crossing into or out of the Schengen area does its paperwork, and the procedure is published. If Mallorca is the first Schengen port, the captain presents in person at the maritime border post in the Port of Palma to make the entry declaration, carrying the passports of every crew member, each seaman's book or, in its absence, the on-board employment contract, a copy of the current crew list and a copy of the ship's registration certificate. The exit declaration on leaving the Schengen area takes the same documents. Embarking or disembarking a crew member of non-European nationality is a further separate visit, with that person's passport presented for stamping alongside the same set of papers.
The constraint is the clock. The border post is open to the public from 08:00 to 14:00, Monday to Friday. Outside those hours an urgent case is handled by telephoning the post's mobile number and arranging an appointment, which is a concession rather than a service. A yacht arriving on a Friday evening from a non-Schengen port with a crew change booked for Saturday morning has a problem no amount of money solves cleanly. Nothing in the published procedure requires an agent. What it requires is somebody standing at the border post inside a six-hour weekday window with the right documents in the right order, which is why almost every large yacht uses one.
An Land, Anfahrt und Buchung
| Getting there | Palma de Mallorca's airport sits about 8 km from the port, among the busiest in the Mediterranean for direct European connections, which is part of why crew actually stay through a winter refit rather than rotating out. |
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| Arriving by sea | The Bay of Palma is wide, deep and enters easily in almost any conditions, no bar, no narrows, no tidal constraint, inside the commercial port of Palma on the western waterfront. |
| Booking a slot or a berth | Afloat berths at Marina Port de Mallorca are booked online or through reception with long-term rates on request. Yard slots are booked directly with STP, and the large ones go early because only a handful of European yards can lift at the top of this range and the winter window is finite. Hill Robinson, which manages refits here, describes calling in January for a February start as not advisable. |
| What the yard actually costs | STP's tariffs are public record under its Balearic Port Authority concession rather than quoted privately. The 2025 schedule prices a haul and launch, as a single operation, at EUR 6,964.34 in high season for a 40 m yacht and EUR 5,878.98 in low season. |
| The open-yard model in practice | The yard supplies space, the lift and infrastructure; the owner or captain appoints from more than 500 to 600 specialist companies on site. Hill Robinson's own assessment is that this freedom is valuable only if someone coordinates the moving parts, since the binding constraint is not yard capacity but the specialist workshops, which book out early. |
| Eating and crew life | The yard sits inside a real city with a cathedral and an old town rather than a resort strip, and restaurants and shops stay open through January, which is the reason skilled crew and contractors stay through winter instead of leaving with the season. |
Was Eigner und Crew berichten
The industry here is treated as an identity, not just a trade
Tomi Salom, President of the Balearic Marine Cluster, frames the refit industry as part of the islands' economy and culture rather than a service the island happens to host, which shows up on the ground as a workforce with generational boatbuilding knowledge and a city built around the yards rather than tolerating them.
Tomi Salom, Balearic Marine ClusterBerth demand at the top of the range keeps outrunning supply
STP's own leadership points to repeated requests for berths at the largest end of the range as the reason behind its capacity expansion, which is a direct signal that the 120 m, 1,000-tonne ceiling was already the binding constraint before it was raised.
Joan Rossello, CEO, STP Shipyard PalmaThe open-yard freedom only pays off with a coordinator
Hill Robinson, which manages refit projects at STP, is explicit that choosing the best rigger, paint team and electronics contractor from the site's hundreds of companies is genuinely valuable only if someone is managing those moving parts, and that the specialist workshops rather than the yard itself are what books out first.
Hill Robinson
Was gut ist und worauf zu achten ist
Stärken
- The only 1,000-tonne travel lift in EuropeAlongside 100, 150, 200 and 700-tonne lifts and seven keel pits across roughly 130,000 square metres, putting through around 1,500 yachts a year.
- Open-yard choice of contractorMore than 500 specialist companies operate on site, so an owner or captain picks the rigger, the paint team and the electronics contractor rather than being tied to one yard's in-house crew.
- Crew infrastructure that survives the winterPalma is a real city with housing, restaurants and an airport that stays busy in January, which is why the skilled labour base does not leave with the season the way it does at resort yards.
- Its season runs opposite the rest of the MediterraneanLow season at STP is January, July, August and December, the exact months the cruising fleet is either laid up over Christmas or out on charter, so refit slots and pricing work against the crowd rather than with it.
Worauf zu achten ist
- It is an industrial site and it looks like onePaint tents, dust, noise, forklifts and a working commercial port are the view; no owner should plan to entertain guests aboard while the yacht is in the yard.
- Freedom of contractor choice is also the owner's problem to manageHill Robinson's own account is that the open-yard model creates opportunity and complexity together, and the value of choosing the best specialist for each trade only holds if someone is coordinating them.
- The specialist workshops, not the lifts, are what runs out firstHill Robinson names the talleres as the binding constraint over the yard itself, and describes booking a February start in January as not advisable.
- The afloat marina caps at 50 metresMarina Port de Mallorca itself tops out well below the yard's 120 m lifting capacity, so a large yacht afloat and a large yacht in for a lift are two different arrangements on two different waiting lists.
Für wen: Eigner, die eine Yacht dort stationieren, wo große Refit- und Wartungsarbeiten möglich sind, und danach die Balearen befahren.