hi guys welcome back to the channel - welcome back to a lot of Breaking News as you can imagine
with everything that's going on right now the yachting industry is being hit by
a lot of news a lot of things happening a lot of things developing even as i'm speaking right now
I have my iPad with me so i can go over some of the information that i want to bring to you the first
thing is and a lot of you have been sending it and i really appreciate all the people who sent me
every story i can't mention everybody because there's so many people sending me stuff but i do
really appreciate it so thanks very much for that but the first, bit of news is that as i
mentioned in a video recently that the sanctions have come to Alicia Usmanov who is the owner of
m/y Dilbar which is the biggest ship in the world by volume it's a 156 meter
16,000 near enough gross ton vessel which makes it the largest vessel at the largest privately
owned superyacht in the world this vessel has been seized in Germany as i mentioned in my last
video it's in Hamburg in with Lürssen and a dry dock facility there and the vessel has
been seized at this moment according to the german newspapers the impact on this is like i mentioned
in the last video the vessel is in the dry dock in Germany so that drive dock is going to be
unusable now for the foreseeable future for Lürssen which has an impact on their business so i did see
some reports that said that the crew didn't show up for work once the sanctions were mentioned were
once the vessel was seized i'm not quite sure what that means exactly i have a feeling it means that
the shipyard workers did not show up to work on the boat i don't think it means the crew
exactly because unless the crew have been moved off of the boat which is possible because when
you're in dry dock sometimes you don't have working systems like water and heating and
air conditioning and things like that then sometimes the crew will be put into accommodation
at your side now it's quite possible that happened but i don't know that for a fact i have
a feeling what they meant by crew not showing up is that they actually meant shipyard workers
i'm also getting reports that another vessel another Russian-owned vessel
called "Amore Vero" a 90 meter super yacht has been seized whilst in refit in "La Ciotat" in France
now i don't have a lot of information on this vessel it's just coming just before i started
to film the vessel is believed to be owned by Rosneftvoss Igor Sechin and he's a close
ally of Vladimir Putin now this does not surprise me because just a few days ago the
French did put out a statement that said that they were putting together a list of properties
owned by Russians including cars and yachts that could be seized under sanctions by the European
Union so it sounds like they've actually gone ahead and done that and it sounds like
that vessel has been seized according to the reports that i've seen
now another thing that is really very in the early stages it's starting to break
but if you listen to that if you go by that statement from the french government kind of
makes sense i've heard rumors that almost all the russian-owned vessels managed by imperial yachts
that are not already in the water and out of the EU are being have been or are being seized now
Imperial Yachts is a management company for in the superior industry
and they primarily manage russian-owned vessels i have a feeling and i don't know this for sure
but i i seem to recall there are quite a lot of russians working for imperial yachts
i'm not sure if that's true that's what i've heard from within the industry
so yeah so I did contact Imperial Yachts for statements but i haven't heard back from
them as of yet so other Russian-owned yachts that are in dry dock in the EU
motoryacht Solaris is in Barcelona right now in a dry dock i heard reports that they were readying the
vessel for departure ahead of schedule the vessel was seen i believe was seen on sea trials recently
it is back in the dry dock as far as i can tell as far as marine traffic shows it shows
the vessel in the dry dock in the in the dry dock whether the water's in or out i don't know
if you're in barcelona right now and you can get down to that area please uh be
send me some photographs if you can so we can confirm whether it is back out of the water
or not another vessel another russian-owned vessel currently in dry dock is sailing got a
so you probably uh head of sailing i'll say it is a sail assisted motor yacht uh it's 142 meters in
length it's one of the largest yachts in the world it is just outside of the top 10 of the
of the longest yachts and it is the largest sail assisted yacht in the world it has massive masts
on it over 100 meters long and it's owned by uh it's owned by a russian billionaire called andre
milnerchenko he also owns another yacht called motion a and that vessel is in trieste in italy
and that is also in dry dock i've heard that it has one or all of its mass removed currently
um but i've heard that they have also been told the the crew to get the vessel ready to leave
as soon as possible i can't can't confirm that story um if you're in trieste in italy uh get
down to the marina if you can take me some photos or the shipyard should i say take me some photos
of what's going on right down there right now send them to me through the normal you can send
by instagram or you can send them uh through the youtube uh if you go to the about page and
you can see a a a link there so you click on so you can send me an email
so yeah guys so there's a lot happening it's very fast moving right now i've had uh i've
been inundated with uh with news articles and information i'm trying to keep track of it as
best i can um but it does seem that there's a lot of russian yachts being seized right
now what i haven't also noticed is some of the yachts are what some of the yachts were heading
to montenegro which is generally a place that they go as a safe haven because it's outside of the eu
in terms of tax things like that um the uh one of the vessels was seen leaving montenegro and
then they turned off their ais or they have a issue with their ais then it's no longer trans
transmitting so i'm going to do more about that in another video which is which will be coming soon
but um they will most likely be heading out of the eu if they can right so all of the vessels
that are in drydock right now that they're going to struggle to get back into the water to get away
but anyway guys i'm going to i'm going to wrap it up here this is just a quick breaking news video
if you are in any of these areas that i've mentioned and you can you have eyes on these
vessels be sure to uh take a photo and send it to me if you can alright guys i'm just
going to wrap up here and uh stay tuned for more videos coming soon alright guys thanks bye-bye