Singapore yacht associations to merge

by Don Hoyt Gorman, Superyacht News on 16 Nov 2014 Singapore’s two industry yachting and marine associations have agreed to merge and relaunch in time for the Singapore Yacht Show in April 2015, the directors have confirmed. The Singapore Boating Industry Association, which was incorporated in February 2011 as the lead association for Singapore’s recreational boating industry, and the Superyacht Singapore Association, which was formed in 2007, are in the process of joining forces to better represent the marine industry of the South East Asian island nation.

'I support the initiative for our association to fall under a unified Singapore Boating Industry Association, so that we can address all future yachting, boating and maritime issues together to third parties,' said Arthur Tay, Chairman of the Superyacht Singapore Association.

'Now that we have an industry body encompassing the leisure sector it makes sense to park it all under one roof,' YP Loke, Chairman of the Singapore Boating Industry Association has explained. A name for the new body has yet to be decided.

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