Earlier this year there was a huge commotion about the plan of superyacht builder Oceanco in Alblasserdam to transport the more than 500 million euro ship from Bezos to Rotterdam. However, part of the monumental Hef had to be removed for this. However, many Rotterdammers, and ultimately also the city council, thought this was an extremely unsatisfactory plan.
Bezos’ ship with the masts on it would be a lot higher than the throughput height of De Hef. With its 46 meters (if the movable part is all the way up), it is not high enough. The whole discussion about ‘Jeff’s Hef’ went around the world and appeared in various media in America, Europe and Asia, of course because it was about the latest toy from billionaire Bezos.
The ship, project name Y721, is now berthed – without masts – at the Greenport Rotterdam shipyard at Eemhaven. It was brought there by transporter Koninklijke Van der Wees.
‘Choosed another route’
Water transport manager Rick Wansink of Van der Wees only wants to confirm that the company took care of the transport, and that the superyacht did not pass under De Hef. “A different route has been chosen. We don’t want to say more about it; we have a duty of confidentiality towards our client.”
The masts can now be placed on the yacht at the Greenport shipyard in Rotterdam-Pernis, after which it can sail or be brought into the North Sea without any obstacles.
Builder Oceanco in Alblasserdam did not want to comment on the passage of the yacht to Rotterdam and referred to the ‘head office’ in Monaco. The company would have been more troubled by threats if it nevertheless asked the municipality of Rotterdam to partially dismantle De Hef. The company declined to comment on those rumors.
At 127 meters, the Bezos superyacht is the longest ever built.