Today’s ship in the Philipsburg Port: Artefact
St. Maarten Ship Review: Artefact
Many visitors of Philipsburgs Great Bay Beach as nearest beach to the Philipsburg St. Maarten Cruise Port stare in daily amazement at the vast vessels docking in the Philipsburg Port. This blog serves to provide background information on the large ships docking in port. Todays choice to highlight a vessel visiting St. Maarten falls on mega yacht Artefact.
1. A Record Size Yacht in its Class
Artefact is one of the worlds biggest mega yachts in volume at a size of 80 meters, with 2999 giga tonnes. Its building cost was 240 million US Dollars.
2. Built by A Historical Mega Yacht Brand
The ship was built by Nobiskrug docks in northern Germany in 2020. This firm was founded in 1905 by Otto Storck and is a renowned mega yacht builder. The wharf us located alongside the busy Kiel canal, making ships avoid to have to go all the way around Denmark to reach the Baltic from the Northern sea. The canal was only built ten years before Storck founded his famed mega yacht brand, now part of the Tennor Group but producing ships under its own famed brand to this day.
3. Motor Yacht of the Year 2021
In the year of its launch 2021, the mega yacht directly received appraisal as named Motoryacht of the Year during BOAT International’s 16 annual World Superyacht Awards in Monaco.
4. Meant as floating “Platform of Innovation”
The yachts owner wanted the ship to be a display of the latest technologies. Amongst technologies applied were those reducing CO2 emissions, increasing fuel efficiency and applications contributing to automation of safe and stable seafaring.
5. Innovation by a famous Innovator
It will not surprise you that this “platform of innovation” at sea is owned by an accomplished technology entrepreneur. Mike Lazaridis was one of the main bright minds behind the Blackberry Mobile, a breakthrough hand held computer in its time.
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