Amazon (AMZN) – Jeff Bezos’ $500M Superyacht Relocated After Bridge Controversy, Avoids Getting Egged In Process
, 2022-08-06 02:00:00,
An unfinished mega yacht belonging to the world’s second-richest man has made its way out of the shipbuilding yard in the Netherlands after being the target of threats. Here’s why the ship was moved and where it went.
What Happened: An unfinished $500 million yacht being built for Amazon.com Inc AMZN founder Jeff Bezos has been towed away from the Oceanco shipyard in Alblasserdam.
Benzinga previously reported the superyacht was stuck in a Dutch city after it was revealed it wouldn’t be able to fit through a passageway after being built due to being too large. A historic bridge was going to be dismantled to help the ship get through.
The New York Post is reporting the yacht was relocated to the Oceanco shipyard in Greenport, located 24 miles away.
The superyacht is 417 feet long and has the name “Y721” currently.
The YouTube channel Dutch Yachting has video of the vessel being towed, which can be viewed below. Yacht enthusiast Hanco Bol who owns the channel wrote of the towing.
“We never saw a transport going that fast,” Bol said. “It took less than three hours for the ship to travel southwest along the Noord canal even though it normally requires nearly twice as much time to traverse the route.”
Bol said Oceanco, the company making the yacht, could have chosen to make the quick move due to the publicity surrounding the big name of Bezos.
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