In Rotterdam, the bridge of the port of the king may be partly dismantled to let pass Y721, the gigantic yacht commanded by the American billionaire to the Oceanco construction sites
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He resisted the terrible 1940 German bombings, he may not resist Jeff Bezos’ power, the founder of Amazon. The Koningshavenbrug Bridge (“Pont du Port du King”), better known as “de hef” – abbreviation of hefbrug, “Levant Bridge” – by all the inhabitants of Rotterdam, may be partly dismantled to leave Pass Y721, the gigantic yacht commissioned by the American billionaire at the Oceanco building sites of Alblasserdam, in the south of the Netherlands.
With its central structure of 46.5 meters high HEF, classified national monument, is an obstacle on the ship’s maritime road of 127 meters long, provided with three gigantic masts. Y721 is, indeed, a huge sailboat – which should, however, have emergency diesel engines.
Interview Wednesday, February 2, a spokesman for the Mairie de la Grande Port city confirmed the information of a regional television: Yes, the former railway bridge, which found its current form in 1927, will be dismantled L ‘next summer. Left to come back on a promise to the inhabitants, very attached to this symbol of their city: no question of one day to HEF, were they said in 2017, after a renovation operation.
Embarrassing business for the town hall
From a great symbolic reach, too, the ad quickly went around the world and, Thursday, February 3, Ahmed Aboutaleb, the social democrat mayor of Rotterdam rectified the shot: he indicated on a daily basis He had not received any official request and intended to weigh the pros and cons. “The economic interest, with the image of our maritime region, and the technical aspect: Can we avoid damage? We also want to know if the costs will be borne by the buyer.” He Indeed, to quickly rebuild the structure of the bridge after the passage of the Superyacht.
a priori, this last question should not worry Mr. Bezos, whose fortune was estimated at $ 211 billion (184.3 billion euros) in July 2021. He did not distract a lean party. From this paddle (430 million euros) for the order of its boat, with a small supplement for a support ship of 75 meters, ordered from another Dutch site.
For the left town hall, the case is embarrassing a few weeks of the local elections that will take place in mid-March. If it was about to celebrate the talent of its manufacturers – although Oceanco shipyards are held by a billionaire of Oman – it will now want to make me forget the megalomania of a project that will have required four years of work, whispering a Ultra-rich who, after having wanted to supplant his rivals in the field of spatial tourism, hears also incarnate in the king of the sea. Y721 is also aimed at supplanting Venus, the mythical yacht of Steve Jobs, designed by Philippe Starck, and launched in the Netherlands in 2012, one year after the death of Apple’s co-founder.