this is superyacht news with eSysman-
hi and welcome back to the channel it's been a few days since i've done an update so let's let's do
that right now so we've got some quite a bit of news actually to get on with now if you
frequent Boat International you may have seen a story about it fairly recently where they talked
about this vessel it was the biggest vessel of 2022 and it was it was it was this first sighting.
the size is believed to be 145 meters or 476 foot and it's still being constructed it's still in 2
parts as you can see it on the Boat International website and that was all that was mentioned about
it really that it was a big boat 145 meters bigger than Sheherezade bigger than Crescent
so one of the probably top 10 largest or longest yachts in the world upon completion -well the New
York Times were the first to reveal the owner of this vessel now he's not a Russian he's actually
a Ukrainian called Rennet Akmatov now he is the owner of -well he's the richest man in Ukraine
and one of the things he does own is the- or what he did own is the steel mill in Mariupole where
the Ukrainian soldiers had that last stand there he's actually the owner of that property
and anyway he is a big businessman he owns TV stations he owns a lot of things in Ukraine and
he was actually the owner of this vessel which is still in build
now obviously that information did not come from Lürssen who are building the vessel of course
because it's a massive 145 meter vessel and lures and build all the big vessels
this the reason why it's it's known is because the actual the owner's
company system capital management and Akhmatov actually made a statement through that company
so there's a spokesperson at Akmatov's company and he said he said about the yacht that Mr. Akmatov
is actually considering selling the yacht before he even takes delivery of it given the current
circumstances we are considering its possible sale that's what the spokesman said so he is
now considering selling this vessel so that's very interesting isn't it a sign of the times
so yeah we'll see if he does obviously Lürssen are tight-lipped about this they are super secretive
about anybody's you know ownership of these vessels in actual fact in the Monaco Yacht
Show a few years ago i went to Lürssen and i said look can i do a video with somebody what
i'd like to do is i'd like to say i come in and i say i want to buy soup yet what's the process
so it's just a generalised um you know how does it work and they said no we can't do that so they
wouldn't even tell me what the process was if i was to say like theoretically i came in this
area i want to buy a yacht how does it work and they wouldn't even tell me that so they are very
very serious about this and there's not anything sinister about that obviously all super yacht
owners want the utmost secrecy when it comes to building these things to privacy you know so i'll
move on now to the next story this is about motor yacht Samadaya - it's been a bit quiet lately
obviously the after everything that happened previously the vessel is now still in Fiji waiting
for the outcome of what the lawyers what the court judgement is going to be on the vessel
that has been some background that's come out i'm not quite sure how this was released
whether it was a you know anonymous sources and stuff like that but a lot of the information
from that court case remember there was a court case and the transcript was redacted
a lot of the information that was redacted has now come out and it goes to how the FBI claimed
to have identified the yacht as belonging to Suleiman Kerimov the crew would use code names for
the owner and they would have like G0 for Kerimov G1 for the wife G2 for the daughter and so on now
it's not a slam dunk by any means this is very common on super yachts to have a code name for
the owners i've actually talked about this in a previous video one of my Q& A's i talked about it
a while ago they'll use things like gold talking about the owner or so on the radio it's usually
for communications whether it be whatsapp or you know a messenger app or whether it's on the radios
and they'll say you know gold is in the tender heading back to the boat or P1 you know papa wong
the owner and then P2 is the wife things like that the problem i've got with that is G stands
for guest right so guess zero so it could be a guest comes on board you use that system for every
guest that comes on board but it should be noted that Amadea is not a charter vessel so
it's not like they are chartering and using the same codes for whichever family comes on board
so what is interesting and this goes more towards ownership is that they were saying that the FBI
said that the the family and carrier's family were involved in making modifications to the vessel
such as the installation of a pizza oven they wanted to have plug sockets added in bathrooms
and also the there was a they found a text a crew member discussing a possible and this is the
quote upcoming G-0 guest trip noting he wants the quickest jet skis available so they'll need to buy
new jet skis now generally you would not have somebody who doesn't own a vessel move asking
for plug sockets to be installed into a guest a cat into a guest cabin right into a bathroom
so that does go more towards people making those kinds of decisions being owners of that vessel
what they were saying about the vessel is that after leaving Fiji they were going to
the Philippines to a dry dock and one of the crew allegedly wrote to a family member saying
we're not going to Russia and then put a shush emoji after it that seems to clearly say that
they were going to ship but that also could have just been a bad joke
so the justice department said that it didn't believe paperwork showing that Amadea was next
headed to the Philippines arguing that it was really destined for Vladivostok or elsewhere
in Russia so court documents show the company that Hanaf represents this is the defence lawyer Milner
Marine Investments he that the legal they are the legal owner of the vessel the Cayman Islands flag
vessel and that Mill Marine is owned on paper by Edouard Kudanatov now this is the person that the
defence is saying owns the vessel now this is also who that who they are saying owns Sheherezade in
which has been arrested in Italy right so his name's been attached to both of these vessels
now a combination of over a billion dollars worth of yachts now what the FBI are arguing is he can't
afford to own those two vessels because he's not wealthy enough so what they said is the fact that
the fact that could tame the tov is being held out as the owner of two of the largest superyachts
on record both linked to sanctioned individuals suggests that Kutanatov is being used as a clean
unsanctioned straw owner to conceal the true beneficial owners the FBI wrote
in an affidavit now the Mr Kudaimatov actually actually signed enough for David saying he did own
motor yacht Amadea and Hanov wrote in an appeal which he never used because the
the cause actually took up the case he said that it was very thin the the arguments that the FBI
had to prove ownership of that vessel now what i would say is
every crew member who works on board that vessel knows who owns it without a shadow
of a doubt so i believe that on friday. the final judgment or the the next hearing
for this case is going to be heard in the court in Fiji so stay tuned for updates on that
one other story guys -Heesen, remember we talked about Hessen they were having problems
because Vajit Alekparov is the was the owner of his and yachts with the Dutch yacht
builders but Russian-owned he's under sanctions by the UK and a lot of the companies that supply
equipment and expertise to Heesen are British companies and they were unable to do any work
with them because he's under sanctions with the UK- he's not currently on the eu sanctions however
this was causing big problems for Heesen and they talked even talked about bankruptcy now the good
news is is that Mr Alekperov has sold his shares of the company to a foundation a Dutch foundation
and it's not known how much he got for those shares but he was able to do that because
as i said he's not currently under EU sanctions so the company now is dutch owned again which i'm
sure all the Dutch will love and that's great news because it means that all of the
companies in the UK can now re-establish that work that they were doing and the yachts can be
completed and business can go back to normal as assuming that the yachts they're building are not
owned by sanctioned Russians but that's great news and i'm really happy about that and
all the people there's over a thousand people at work at Hessen and then you've got all of these UK
companies that will also have the benefit of being able to work with them again so that's great news.
one other thing before i go m/y Nord you'll remember Nord it's been in Vladivostok
for a couple of months now and it hasn't been any sign of life there now what happened is the
crew that took it there as far as i'm aware the British crew that took the vessel there
once the vessel was delivered to Vladivostok they left and went back to the UK now what i would
imagine if that did happen -what i would imagine has happened now is that they've got a new crew
and the vessel left Vladivostok last night and it's out in the north China Sea
up by Korea- it's got a destination on AIS or it has a destination on the AIS
of somewhere in south Korea but i don't think that it's planning on going there
now the vessel sailed out sail south and then it stopped dead in the water and it's been flickering
in and out of AIS communication for the last 24 hours i don't really know what's going on there
but the vessels being sat there not moving at all- now what i think is happening i think that
they're on sea trials they've either had some something done to the vessel and the testing
but -what i think is more likely is they have a new crew on board so they've they've taken the
vessel out and they've you know so everyone can get used to the vessel -and maybe they're
practicing dropping tenders in the water and stuff like that hence the reason why the vessel
isn't moving that's the only thing i can think of if the vessel had broken down or was in some
sort of trouble they would have that would have been dealt with by now but anyway guys
that is something that i'll keep watching and i'll let you know in a future video all right
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