Dockwise Yacht Transport´s (DYT) newest ship, the 687.5-foot (209 meter) Yacht Express, left Ft. Lauderdale last week with a full load of cargo: $154 million worth of private luxury and sport fishing yachts. The largest vessel of its kind in the world, Yacht Express was purpose-built at Yantai Raffles Shipyard in China with a semi-submersible dock bay that allows yachts of any size to be safely floated on and off as cargo. This is its first run on a regularly-scheduled round-trip route between Florida and the Mediterranean, which typically takes 15 days each way. The super ship´s size and power (it has a service speed of 18 knots) can pare down the transport time to as few as 10 days. The float-on/float-off process is unique to DYT, which operates three other semi-submersible yacht carriers.
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