ANADE becomes Marinas de Baleares and strengthens its role in Balearic boating

The Association of Nautical Sports Facilities of the Balearic Islands (ANADE) has updated its corporate name while maintaining its track record and representative role within the Balearic nautical sector.

The Association of Nautical Sports Facilities of the Balearic Islands, until now known as ANADE, will now be called Marinas de Baleares. With this change, the organisation seeks to strengthen its public and business identity, aligning its name with the reality of the sector it represents and with its role as the business association for nautical facilities managed by private companies in the Balearic Islands.

Founded on January 22nd, 1987, the association was created with the aim of establishing a common space where companies in the sector could share knowledge, resolve doubts, address shared challenges and propose joint solutions. Almost four decades later, Marinas de Baleares has consolidated itself as a benchmark organisation in the nautical-sports field across the archipelago.

The association currently has 22 member facilities, representing around 5.345 berths, making it the representative of a majority share of the private nautical facilities in the Balearic Islands. Its members include marinas, docks, mooring areas, boatyards and other infrastructure linked to nautical activity.

The organisation is also a member of FANMED, the association focused on environmental matters and made up of the Balearic nautical sector, the islands’ sailors and recreational fishing representatives.

Marinas de Baleares therefore operates within the autonomous community, although its integration into Marinas de España, the Spanish Federation of Tourist and Recreational Port Associations, allows its interests to be represented at national and international level as well.

Its main objectives include contributing to the public and business prestige of its members, representing and defending them before public administrations, courts, associations, federations, chambers of commerce, professional bodies and other organisations, as well as promoting free enterprise within the framework of the social market economy.

With this new name, Marinas de Baleares begins a new institutional stage while keeping its mission intact: to defend, represent and strengthen the role of nautical facilities as an economic, tourism and business driver for the Balearic Islands.