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Yacht Shipping Limited  represent  Sevenstar Yacht Transport B.V.  Amsterdam as their exclusive UK agents for their specialist water to water service.

With a modern fleet of some 100 vessels, Sevenstar arrange the  transportation of yachts  worldwide.  Sevenstar   Yacht Transport  make it possible for your yacht to reach distant marinas and exotic waters in the shortest time possible. Simply deliver your yacht alongside the Ocean Vessel and Sevenstar will take care of the rest.

Main Advantages

• safe and reliable method of sea transportation
• experienced, professional load masters on hand to load and unload your yacht
• sailing yachts remain with masts upright and rigging intact
• motor yachts up to 6m high can be shipped under deck
• minimum preparation – no need to remove radar arch, ariels, propellers etc
• cradling systems provided on board by Ocean Carrier
• speed of transit to destination
• no need to be present during loading/unloading as yachts can be collected from/delivered to your requested marina

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Sevenstar Yacht Transport Q&A: Yacht Shipping

August 24, 2015 9:00 am

Sevenstar Yacht Transport is the world’s leading provider of yacht shipping services. With a global network of destinations, worldwide offices, and a fleet of over 120 company-owned vessels, Sevenstar transports more than 2,500 yachts each year.

For the past 30 years, Sevenstar has been providing a unique range of customizable yacht transport services including: lift-on, lift-off; float-on, float-off; and liner services. By utilizing these services, customers can save time and fuel, prevent wear and tear on their yachts, and allow crew to receive much needed rest.

Sevenstar attributes its success to innovative techniques, flexibility, customer care, and competitive pricing. In an interview with Denison Yacht Sales, Sevenstar discusses the company’s operations, growth, and future plans.

Who founded Sevenstar Yacht Transport? Now the world’s leader of yacht transport services, when did the company go global?

Sevenstar Yacht Transport was founded in 1985 and became part of the Spliethoff Group in 2000. The Spliethoff Group was established in 1921 by Herman Spliethoff and is now one of the largest shipping companies (3,300 employees) in the Netherlands, founded on the tradition of Dutch seamanship dating back to the 1600s.

The Spliethoff Group provides Sevenstar with a unique capacity: Sevenstar is the only yacht transporter in the world that has its own fleet of commercial vessels.

Which country brings Sevenstar the most business?

Sevenstar is a worldwide company that services the transport of yachts to almost every major economic hub. The business follows the world’s economic state and differs year by year. Sevenstar sees a rise in transport in countries where the economy is growing like in the U.S., and a decrease where there is an economic decline like in Russia.

In general, a lot of business is done in the U.S. and European countries like the UK and Italy. The market is also determined by where the most yachts are built. Next, the emerging South Asian markets, specifically China, will have an impact on the industry as a whole in the coming years, as the idea of recreational luxury and wealth extends from the western hemisphere to the eastern.

What percentage of business comes from working with yacht manufacturers and shipping new-build yachts?

This percentage differs every year, but averages around 25 to 30 percent. A large part of the transport with manufacturers is the transportation of yachts to international boat shows.

New build yachts from shipyards, especially ones that are developed by production builders, have the need to transport large quantities of yachts in pristine condition to all areas of the world.

How long has Sevenstar been working with Denison Yacht Sales?

We have worked with the Denison team for the past eight years. During this time, we have transported new and used yachts for Denison brokers and brand managers .

Explain the advantages of using Sevenstar over other yacht shipping companies? Is there a cost saving?

Sevenstar offers a high quality service with a reasonable price. We focus on an all-in fee including insurance, all necessary paperwork, and custom formalities without additional charges.

The advantage for the customers to ship with Sevenstar lies in the fact that we provide the utmost care by highly trained and specialized professionals with long-standing experience.

Another main advantage is that through our company-owned vessels and wide range of worldwide destinations, clients receive great service as well as maximum flexibility in time and location. This is the reason why Sevenstar became the benchmark yacht transporter of the industry worldwide.

What is Sevenstar’s most common method of yacht transport?

Sevenstar uses the fleet of the Spliethoff Group freighter cargo ships utilizing heavy lift cranes for the method of lift-on, lift-off. However, since partnering with DYT Yacht Transport in October of 2013, the use of two semi-submersible yacht carriers with the float-on, float-off method have been added to the fleet.

Briefly describe the lift-on, lift-off process? Was this invented by Sevenstar?

The yacht to be transported is specially fitted with lifting harnesses put in place by professional divers using yacht specifications and schematics. Once everything is in order, the yacht is lifted out of the water by a series of heavy lifting cranes and secured on individual supports to the deck of the transport carrier. Once the yacht arrives at the destination, the same process goes in reverse. Sevenstar did further professionalize this process and developed their own lifting and cradle system, which are based on years of experience in shipping all types of yachts.

What kind of training do Sevenstar load masters undergo?

The load master training is done mostly in-house and on the job under the supervision of our most experienced and senior load masters. The training consists of a variety of subjects including knowledge of the center point of gravity in a wide range of yachts, the structure of yachts, the various cradle systems, the correct placement of the slings, diving capabilities, and training in safety and firefighting.

Handling the cranes and calculating strengths, weights, and maximum outreach of the cranes are also part of the training. A team of 15 people create very precise AutoCAD stow plans for the load masters to work with.

Also, theoretical knowledge is an essential component of the training when it comes to custom and port formalities and other maritime regulations related to the relevant loading or discharge ports.

A high profile job in the maritime industry, load masters fly around the world on continual basis. Many Sevenstar load masters have college degrees, or worked as former first officers or vessel captains.

About how long does it take to load and unload a yacht?

Whereas the time it takes to load and unload a yacht is reliant on environmental conditions and yacht specifications, the actual loading process can take about an hour for yachts less than 60 feet and up to two hours for larger yachts. This does not include the hours spent on logistics, individually tailor-made berthing cradles, and secured sea fastening.

What is the furthest that Sevenstar has transported a yacht?

The shipment from Rotterdam in the Netherlands to Newcastle in Australia is probably the furthest transport. In general, Sevenstar is transporting yachts all over the world. There are no destination limits, and we can ship a yacht around the world without any stress or effort on behalf of the owner.

What is the largest yacht to date that Sevenstar has shipped?

With the partnership of DYT, we have shipped a 130 meter (426 feet) yacht using one of the semi-submersible yacht carriers. On a lift-on, lift-off basis, the biggest yacht was 72 meters (236 feet).

What do the liner services entail? How often are they used?

With such a large network of cargo vessels running on common routes and schedules throughout the world, Sevenstar offers passage to a yacht on one of these common shipping channels. The liner service allows for an even more flexible method for our clients to satisfy their transport needs.

Next to operating its own fleet, the liner team at Sevenstar has well-established relationships with a large number of both container lines and RO/RO operators, as well as a worldwide network of first class local suppliers and agents. This means that even more regular routes become available, which is very convenient for manufacturers and brokers.

Sevenstar recently acquired Complete Marine Northern Europe with a team of nine staff, securing a highly valued specialist in liner service built by Gerald Price and with offices based in the UK.

When did the Spliethoff Group purchase Dockwise? Briefly explain DYT’s role within the company? 

The Spliethoff Group purchased Dockwise Yacht Transport in October of 2013. The name changed to DYT Yacht Transport exclusively, without ties to Dockwise. DYT Yacht Transport has two semi-submersibles that are unique to yacht transport. Whereas other yacht transport companies use a series of heavy lift cranes to load and unload yachts, DYT is different. These unique vessels submerge, transforming into a marina where loading can be done safely and easily. DYT then de-ballasts the vessel to have the yachts rest in secured cribbing while on a floating dry dock, complete with power and water connections. The “float-on” process is then reversed for an equally safe “float-off” delivery of the yachts at their desired destinations.

What are the future plans and goals for Sevenstar over the next 10 years?

We see that yachts are getting larger, and we are regularly transporting yachts from 60 to 65 meters. In the years ahead, you will see us move yachts of up to 100 meters. In tandem with that, we will increasingly offer more and better services and new destinations. Currently, we transport 2,500 yachts a year. That is up from only 300 a year in 2000. In a decade from now, we will transport 3,000 to 4,000 yachts a year. We have no ambition to be an A-to-B freight forwarder; our specialty is transport over water to anywhere on company-owned freighters. In the future, we will acquire more yacht transport vessels that offer more flexibility and on-and-off-loading possibilities.

The strategy going forward also lies in exploring new markets and specialized niches that require highly skilled staff and knowledge. In the next 10 years, Sevenstar will be exploring exceptional-sized maritime vessels and equipment, as well as military vessels and specific business to business sections of the market.

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Spliethoff Group subsidiaries Sevenstar Yacht Transport and DYT Yacht Transport are world leading when it comes to transporting yachts. Sevenstar is renowned for lift-on, lift-off yacht transport and has several specialised divisions.

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Even now, in the third year of the pandemic, we’re seeing headlines about global supply chain disruptions caused by worker shortages and other factors related to COVID-19. In particular, the maritime shipping industry has been affected, with long lines of cargo ships frequently sitting idle as they wait to be unloaded in port.

“It’s a very difficult marketplace at the moment. The freight rates are higher than they’ve been in decades. Congestion in ports is at an all-time high, all these things are affecting our ability to get ships where they need to be on time, and space on ships is at a massive premium,” says Simon Judson, CEO of global logistics firm Peters & May , which organizes passage for yachts on board a wide variety of commercial cargo ships.

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Right from the start, the pandemic dramatically transformed the yacht transportation industry. In early 2020, the number of bookings by the usual clients, including owners and captains wanting to move their yachts to seasonal cruising grounds and sailing yacht owners and captains following the regatta circuit, fell off dramatically. At the same time, bookings increased from yacht owners who were unable to travel to their vessels and wanted to have them shipped home instead. Then, as COVID-related lockdowns and sheltering began to fuel the demand for new and brokerage boats, yacht manufacturers, dealers, and brokers around the world began to use yacht transport companies to ship boats to clients who couldn’t get to the vessels or send crew to pick them up. “I think COVID has changed everybody’s way of doing business,” says General Manager Laura Tempest of DYT , which owns and operates semi-submersible yacht-transport ships.

Port closures and travel restrictions also made it difficult for yacht transport companies to move their loadmasters into position around the world in order to supervise loading and unloading. In addition, “We have had a shortage of loadmasters at times when they came down with COVID,” said Uta Scarlata, who handles transatlantic and Caribbean sales for Sevenstar Yacht Transport , which operates its own fleet of 120 cargo vessels.

“Everything about the logistics of shipping a yacht from A to B is ten times harder,” Judson says, but he adds, “As we moved through the pandemic, we learned a little bit about how to adapt. Today we are using what we’ve learned to be better placed. That means making sure we’ve got the right people in the right places a lot further in advance [and] thinking about relocating our cradling and lifting equipment and everything we need to load the boats a lot further in advance.”

While internal logistics such as these typically are handled by a yacht transportation company behind the scenes without affecting its clients, industry experts agree that this year, yacht captains are going to have to act earlier than usual in order to secure transportation for their yachts.

If you do need to ship a yacht overseas, there are two basic means of transport: on the deck of a commercial ship or inside a semi-submersible vessel.

“It’s kind of going back to old days when if you didn’t book well in advance, you are not going to have a space…. People are done [with sheltering]. They are going to start using their yachts whether it be in the Med or in the Caribbean,” says Tempest. “We are seeing all of our repeat customers coming back, and the ones we met in the last year and a half that we didn’t know before are coming back.”

“Every ship that we’ve put on from the middle of last year has been fully booked probably a month before it comes to port. That was never the case before. We would always have some space a week before,” says Judson, who also predicts that demand for yacht transportation will increase in 2022 as owners return to pre-pandemic levels of cruising and racing. “If there’s a reason to book early, it would be to avoid disappointment in the fact that there may not be space,” he says. “To be safe, you should be thinking at least two months out.”

Cargo Ship vs. Semi-Submersible

There are a variety of reasons why an owner or captain would want to arrange to have a yacht transported from one location to another. It might be to change cruising grounds with the seasons, or to take the yacht to an event. Some yachts are able to make the voyage on their own bottom, but others must be shipped because they may be too small or have an insufficient fuel capacity to make the trip, their owner wants to avoid wear and tear on the vessel, or the yacht is booked for a charter in the new destination and the timing is just too tight.

Booking space on a cargo ship gives you the advantage of being able to transport a yacht pretty much anywhere around the globe where that vessel is scheduled to deliver freight.

If you do need to ship a yacht overseas, there are two basic means of transport: on the deck of a commercial ship or inside a semi-submersible vessel. Which method to pick depends on a variety of considerations, including the location where you want to ship the yacht, the flexibility of your schedule, whether or not you want to use the transit time to get work done on board, and the price.

In the most common scenario, the yacht is lifted by crane onto a commercial ship and secured in a custom-built cradle on its deck, where it shares space with other cargo for the duration of the passage. Since cargo ships typically make multiple stops and can experience delays in loading and unloading cargo, it’s important to have a flexible schedule. “Shipping is not an exact science. You can’t expect to ship on a certain day and unload on a certain day. You have to give yourself flexibility,” Judson says.

On the other hand, booking space on a cargo ship gives you the advantage of being able to transport a yacht pretty much anywhere around the globe where that vessel is scheduled to deliver freight.

The other yacht-transport method, pioneered by Dockwise Yacht Transport (now DYT) in the 1980s, is “float on/float off.” DYT’s semi-submersible ships are partially submerged in the water; the yacht floats into it and is secured in a cradle on the deck by divers. Then, the water is drained from the hold. At the end of the voyage, the process is reversed and the yacht floats out.

“When the world woke up with a bang, the amount of consumer goods to be shipped outweighed the space available to ship them. That will take some time to stabilize,” he says.

DYT offers a limited number of routes designed to match typical yacht-shipping patterns, such as from the Mediterranean to Fort Lauderdale and the Caribbean and back. “What I think sets us apart from anyone else is that we have a set schedule — there is no deviation; there is no change. That is why charter yachts depend on us,” Tempest says.

When clients want to ship their yachts off the beaten path, DYT will refer them to its sister company, Sevenstar Yacht Transport, for bookings on board its cargo ships.

DYT recently launched a third ship, Yacht Servant , which was built in China and is scheduled to start transporting yachts in May. For a short window in 2022, DYT will have three semi-submersible vessels in operation, which should help to meet the rising demand for yacht transportation.

Riding Along

Before the pandemic, captains typically could send one or two crewmembers along with the yacht during either type of transportation, enabling them to use the passage as a mini yard period to get a variety of jobs done on board.

While most cargo ships do not permit riders to sleep in their yachts while in transit, before the pandemic, they often would assign them cabins in the ship and let them eat in the mess hall and recreate with the ship’s crew. However, when COVID-19 hit, most ship operators suspended this courtesy in order to reduce the risk of the disease spreading on board, which could lead to serious delays if the ship was forced to quarantine before unloading in a port.

“When things calm down, we will accept riders again,” Scarlata says. On DYT, “We still allow riders as it’s such a crucial part of the service that we offer,” Tempest says. In fact, the semi-submersible ships provide power to the yachts so that riders can sleep and work on board. At the height of the pandemic, however, the company limited the riders’ interaction with the ship’s crew. “They needed to provision their yacht for the duration of the voyage. They had to stay in the yacht and on the deck of the ship; they could not go into the ship’s superstructure.”

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One thing that has not changed in the yacht transportation industry is the need for owners and captains to ensure their vessel is properly insured for the passage. “Some people get caught out on this. They think their hull and machinery insurance will automatically cover them. They need to take out a separate marine cargo insurance policy,” Judson says.

Both Sevenstar and DYT include an all-risk insurance policy in the rate they quote for yacht transport. “Usually, one of the questions we get is, ‘Can we leave it out?’ It’s not optional,” Tempest says. “It covers everyone on board and eliminates the need for multiple underwriters.”

Price Increases

Captains booking transport for their yachts today are finding that insurance rates have gone up. “The whole insurance market has hardened over the last couple of years,” Judson says.

As for shipping, no matter what method you choose, you are bound to see a COVID-related price increase. “DYT rates have increased over the past six months. Many factors have attributed to this but certainly a large portion is a consequence of the global pandemic,” Tempest says.

“In the last ten years, freight rates have been very low…. Now the market has flipped a little bit,” Judson says. While there are a number of reasons behind this, the main one is the reduced amount of cargo space currently available.

As for shipping, no matter what method you choose, you are bound to see a COVID-related price increase. 

In early 2022, Judson reported that his company had seen rates for shipping yachts between the U.S. and the Caribbean go up 15 to 20 percent; transatlantic shipping rates had increased a 60 to 80 percent, and rates to and from the Far East had gone up 200 to as high as 300 percent. “Coming out of Asia, every ship is full to the gunwales and if you want some space, you have to pay through the nose for it,” he says.

“There are not as many people who are prepared to pay the increased freight rates we are seeing at the moment. There are a lot of people who are holding back…,” Judson continues. “Not everyone who ships a yacht is a multi-millionaire. We’ve got lots of clients who are dealers, brokers, and manufacturers who are moving their boats where they need to be to be sold as new boats…. I think the people and companies who are shipping their boats now are the ones who have more of a commercial need.”

This feature originally ran in the April 2022 issue of Dockwalk.

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“The cooperation makes all good sense on the planet, ” said Richard Klabbers, Sevenstar’s managing director. He explained that DYT’s two ships— Yacht Express and Super Servant 4 —are the world’s only devoted boat transportation vessels that can submerge their particular dock bays for easy FLO/FLO entry and exit of yachts independently keels consequently they are assigned primarily toward safe and expeditious transport of yachts over the Atlantic Ocean. Sevenstar’s expansive international roads, that have been serviced by Spliethoff’s LO/LO providers since 1987– the exact same year that DYT performed its very first yacht transport operations under the name Dock Express – provide boat owners limitless usage of virtually any travel destination on earth.

“By keeping the 2 trusted brands undamaged, we are going to continue steadily to offer our clients understandable alternatives, ” Klabbers carried on. “A charter yacht owner needs to maintain the Caribbean or perhaps the Med by a particular day and back into the U.S. by another; a casino game fishing enthusiast needs to be at an event in Costa Rica; a cruising few desires to begin a ‘round-the-world adventure inside South Pacific – every scenario for every yacht owner is significantly diffent. No Matter What need and no matter which of our offices or agents they call, they'll certainly be skillfully encouraged on how to properly transfer their boat.”

A group of experienced running masters continuously travels the planet to orchestrate the running and unloading of yachts entrusted to DYT and Sevenstar. “Better a specially trained professional to handle such precious cargo as multi-million buck yachts, ” explained Klabbers, whom included that DYT and Sevenstar agents also are strategically posted all over the world to advise and manage logistics for yacht owners as soon as bookings have already been determined. He cautioned that some companies in the yacht transportation business that work as “freight forwarders” aren't built with the understanding and knowledge required to send yachts. This will cause a yacht becoming caught in interface whenever its recommended trip is detained, does not occur, or the costs are perhaps not completely revealed towards yacht owner. “Our company is about obtaining the yachts with their destinations safe, sound and hassle-free. All insurance work and slot clearances tend to be finished in advance by our agents. All running, unloading, cradling and fastening of yachts is supervised by our running masters.”

Other benefits of moving with DYT and Sevenstar tend to be less deterioration on yachts; time down for staff during transport; a shorter time necessary for distribution; and brand-new perspectives to explore.

“There are countless fabulous cruising destinations globally, ” said Klabbers, “and with your help, one could possibly achieve them in an eternity.”

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