This is super yacht news with eSysman
hi guys welcome back to the channel so if you've been watching the videos since
i started posting about the Russian sanctions you probably remember a story about a yacht
called Galactica Supernova so "Galactica Supernova" was in Tivat in Montenegro
and it was right at the beginning when the sanctions first started second of March the
vessel left Tivat and headed south and just as the vessel was outside of Montenegro pouf
and enlisted in terms of AIS and the vessels stopped broadcasting the AIS and vanished
now we managed to track that vessel eventually to Turkey now this was before
Turkey became popular with the Russian super yachts but we managed to track the
vessel there and got some photographs from a subscriber and the vessel as far as i know
is still in Turkey right now and also is still not broadcasting ais even though it's a requirement
by International Maritime Law to root to do that for a passenger vessel regardless of size
Galactica Supernova was built by "Heesen Yachts" in the Netherlands and is owned by Vajid Alekparov
so another yacht that we featured a few months ago this was before the Russian sanctions was a
vessel called motoryacht Galactica i remember you might remember this video the vessel as with most
vessels that are built in the netherlands they build them inland and then they have to navigate
some narrow umrivers and canals to get out to the open ocean and in this particular instance with
Galactica .she was the largest vessel that "Heesen" had built and and the very top of the
vessel had to be had to be wasn't able to be put on until the vessel navigated all of these bridges
but the vessel got become become unstuck when it got to the one of the final bridges and the water
level there was unusually high and the vessel was blocked and they had to try again the next day
well that vessel was also built by Heesen and that vessel is also owned by Vajit Alekparov so he's in
yachts was formed in 1978 when Franz Heesen bought out a company called striker boats now originally
he purchased the property with the idea of building something else there but
eventually decided to keep with the boat building and it became heats and yachts in the early 2000s
Franz Heesen sold the company to Vajraya Alect of the the company is formerly owned by a company
called Marcel and it's based in Cyprus but perov owns that company and he was actually the CEO of
Heesen Yachts until april when he resigned because he was placed on the sanctions list in the UK
and in Australia so Vajraya made his money from the second largest oil company in Russia called
Luke oil and he's he's estimated to be worth around 20 billion dollars that's according to
the guardian newspaper anyway as a result of Mr have been put on the UK sanctions
hissing yachts is having some problems so they get a lot of supplies like a lot of yachts
they get supplies from British companies a lot of electronics a lot of engines things like that
parts are supplied by UK companies as an example Rolls Royce makes engines for Heesen and and they
are unable to supply Heesen currently with any equipment now why is this this is because Mr
Alect Perov is the owner of Heesen and he's under UK sanctions it makes it illegal for UK companies
to do business with with him now he he resigned in april from the CEO position but he is still
considered to be ultimate beneficial owner of Heesen Yachts and therefore there a lot of these
companies are now unable to do business with eason and this is creating problems for Heesen obviously
and it means that they're unable to finish some of the work that they're currently doing a number
of our suppliers are bound by UK laws as a result some of them are unable to meet their obligations
said a spokesperson for Heesen could this be the first shipyard to start to have financial
problems be as a direct result of these sanctions well according to the company this bankruptcy is
not immediately a problem a spokeswoman said heathen which has about a thousand employees
in the netherlands is financially healthy if they can't get parts if they for instance the
yacht as a certain point of the production engines are installed but they still require
rolls royce for parts or for technology for um for software to run the equipment or part or you know
technical expertise and as a result of those sanctions they're not allowed to supply any
of that currently so those vessels are in a real problem if there are vessels in that state where
they can no longer get that equipment it's not like you can just whip the engines out and put
new engines in right because first of all the financial ramifications of that and secondly
many of these yachts the engines are fitted in the build phase before the vessel is put together
and you can't take an engine out not at least in in one piece so yeah so we'll watch this space
but yeah that is not a good sign for Heesen yachts hopefully it won't be a problem like they've said
all right guys moving on to the next story so we have we have an update from Fiji if you remember
motor yacht Amadea traveled over from Mexico after hiding out in the Caribbean traveled to Manzanillo
Mexico headed down to Fiji the the the official story was that after Fiji they were going to the
Philippines for a dry dock period but that was probably a cover story for the the location was
probably going to be Vladivostok in Russia but the vessel as soon as the vessel arrived in Fiji the
vessel was seized now the Americans the United States they are trying to seize that vessel and
they almost got to the point where they could sail away that vessel they actually got their people
on board the the judge and the high court in Fiji had rules that the Americans could take the vessel
and the lawyer who represents mill marine the company that officially owns this vessel he uh put
in for a stay a temporary stay of the order which basically means to pause anything being acted from
from that decision and that was rejected on the thursday and that was it everyone thought that was
it half of the crew left the vessel the americans came on board but then on the friday the judge
agreed to enforce a stay now this is very unusual and for the the fijian prosecutor said
mr pride his name was he said that granting of the stay order on an ex-party basis was irregular
ex parte basically means that uh that the the prosecutor was not there
when this was agreed to by the judge and he said it's extremely unusual for the court of appeal
to grant ex-parte orders he said on friday last friday we had a judgment in the high
court rejecting an application of stay but then very quickly on friday an ex-parte application
is entertained to stay and there is simply no reason for my office to not have been involved
and the matter should have been put on an inter -parte basis in other words there was no reason
to keep us out of the loop and we should have been involved while that decision was being made
and he said there is frankly that this is mr pride the prosecutor
he said there is frankly no excuse for that my lord because my learned friend knew this and in
fact the affidavit from his law clerk was drafted two hours before the judgement in the high court
the next court date will be on the 18th of may and the temporary state order has been
extended until then -one of the interesting things about this is the reason why they were talking
in court again is costing the Fijian government approximately 1 million Fijian dollars per week
that's 640,000 US dollars a week to keep that vessel so mr pride the prosecutor said that the
government has to foot an 83 000 us dollars per day bill for Amadea to stay at Lautoka
now i can only assume- i'm not exactly sure what that bill is for but i can it is a commercial
port and i can only assume that the port is charging the vessel that money to stay
at that berth in that port and it's costing the fijian government 640 000
US dollars per week to keep that vessel there so it's obviously in their interest to get this settled as
soon as possible because Fiji is not you know it's not well not a massive country it's a small
island nation okay guys and one last thing you'll remember after Flying Fox was allowed
to leave Dominican Republic she quickly she did a loop around the island she headed east
and i quickly said that i think that she's going to Turkey as as she was crossing the Atlantic the
destination in ais said Palma de Majorca and i said at the time there's no way that
vessel is going to Palma de Majorca because that's where tango was seized they'd
almost been seized in Dominican Republic but they were they were arrested there for a month the
destination in AIS was was changed to TBC to be confirmed and the vessel went through the
Mediterranean i thought it might stop in Tunisia for fuel but with it being a massive 136
meter super yacht probably had plenty of fuel on board and the vessel continued all the way
to Turkey so she did go to Turkey and she's now in bodrum she's at anchor and uh yeah so so
she another vessel is headed to Turkey another Russian vessel now why would that vessel go to
Turkey now that vessel must remember though that the owner of the vessel is not under under any
sanctions for any of the countries that are sanctioning people not on any sanctions so that
technically they're free to go wherever they want right but obviously that the owner is worried that
the vessel could get seized somewhere else so they've gone to a safe haven for for now anyway
but anyway that's the last story i've got tonight guys let me know what you think
of the stories let me know what you think about that money that it's costing the Fijian
government if you've got any more information on that i would love to know uh anyway guys thanks
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