Influencers and bloggers of the international yachting industry will be the “celebrities” of the digital edition of YARE, Yachting Aftersales and Refit Experience, scheduled for the 26th and 27th of November. The event is organized by NAVIGO – a network for the development and the innovation of the nautical sector.
An integral part of the Macau Yacht Show, in recent years the Asia-Pacific Yacht Industry High-Level Forum has become a key platform for connecting China to the international boating community. Wang Yong, General Manager for the Nam Kwong Group, a mainland Chinese Enterprise which has over 70 years’ experience in operating extensive tourism and leisure platforms in Macau, said in his welcome speech, “the Forum is a great opportunity for the industry to come together to exchange ideas and work together to build a marine culture in the Greater Bay Area (GBA)” – the theme for this year’s presentations.
Australia is set to become one of the world’s premier superyacht destinations under plans for a new $200 million maintenance and refit hub unveiled by Rivergate Marina and Shipyard. The proposed expansion of the internationally acclaimed shipyard would be the catalyst for a major increase in superyacht visitation to Australia and the wider Pacific region due to its capability to service large luxury vessels over 50 metres.
The unprecedented drop in demand for air travel earlier this year triggered battles for survival for most airlines. One of the steps taken was to suspend refunding customers for unused and unusable tickets. This suspension was applied irrespective of fare-type so affected not only restricted but also fully flexible, refundable tickets including marine fare types. The practices of retroactively changing refund policies post-ticket purchase and the withholding of refunds are undoubtedly open to debate and scrutiny from an ethical business standpoint but these topics are not the subjects of this post.
Gold Coast City Marina & Shipyard (GCCM) will receive AUD$20 million from Deb Frecklington’s LNP Queensland Government for its Stage II development which will see the lifting capacity of the Gold Coast increase to 1200 tonnes and the current facility more than double in size.
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Boat design is very much like playing a 3-D version of Tetris. The game is to drop some engines into the bottom of a slightly awkward perimeter shape – the hull – and then fit all the relevant blocks (cabins, en suites, heads, saloon, galley bar, helm station and so on) around them. It is an infinitely variable process, but generally comes out pretty much the same, give or take a movable table or two and the positioning of the sunpads. More often than not, the ‘design’ of a motoryacht is as much to do with the cushion covers and the quality of the finish as it is with the actual arrangement of the interior.
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Save the dates for the ‘APSA Grand Tour’ series of webinars to be hosted in January 2021. Designed to promote superyacht cruising in the Asia – Pacific Region, the webinars will be held on Tuesday 12th,19th and 26th January, 2021 with more details to follow shortly!
