Oceanco’s unparalleled expertise has been matched with developing meticulous superyachts that range between 80 to 140 meters in length. The Omani billionaire Mohammed Al Barwani’s entity has developed several famous luxury superyachts that are in service around the globe. Now the company is changing the sails with their neoteric sustainable approach to luxury yachting.
Since its inception in 1987, Oceanco has forged new pathways in the superyacht industry —challenging the status quo— setting the benchmark high for establishing trends. In order to stay above deck, Oceanco is pioneering a new exciting collaborative initiative— Oceanco NXT. They share an ambitious and unified goal: “To create the most exciting superyachts we can, for future generations.”
The superyacht world, even though it could afford to invest in the latest environmental technologies, is paradoxically lagging the automotive, aeroplane, ironically, the maritime industry. They recognise that existing technologies are evolving fast – from carbon-neutral to true zero: Biogas, LNG, Ammonia, Hydrogen, Methanol, Wind, Solar, Electrification, Composites, Biomimetic Paints, Super-streamlining, and others, each one and their combinations, are all at play. While technologies exist, it is the collective mindset that needs to change. Every small action by anyone in the industry to reduce emissions now becomes a measurable contribution to their decarbonisation ambition.
Oceanco has built 29 custom superyachts, with several 100metre+ yachts currently under construction. The company can simultaneously build 5 yachts in the 80metre+ category (in various stages of design, engineering and construction) – delivering approximately two yachts per year. The company operates in its extended production facility located in the minute municipality that is Alblasserdam, approximately 20 km from Rotterdam. Although the town of South Holland may not get the credit for being the home manufacturing yard, it has unrestricted direct access via the inland waterway system to the North Sea. Oceanco also maintains a sales, design, marketing, and communications office in Monaco – somewhere we will all be dreaming of being this year.
They intend to attract environmentally aware people who believe that the ocean serves as a mirror to their green principles and an inspiration to be part of a future that is more in tune with sustainable human-nature existence. Asking new questions, working with co-creators inside and outside the superyacht industry, being at the forefront of sustainability is all key to their strategy moving forward.
At Oceanco, corporate social responsibility is an evolving practice of consolidating sustainable development into their business model from a social, economic, and environmental perspective. They endeavour to transcend industry and legislative norms by considering a more expansive approach to the workplace, marketplace as well as the institutions they support. They thrive upon their five-pillar plan: Premises, People, Process, Product and Population.
NXT cannot be defined as a single project or concept design; it is an inclusive movement of a fleet of pioneering thinkers striving to evolve the understanding of how we, as consumers, connect with the spaces in which we live, travel and experience. Their collective goal is to build the most exciting superyachts possible to achieve zero impact on the environment, in turn creating a better world for future generations. By targeting the right demographic, using Oceanco’s assets efficiently and working in synergy, hopefully, just hopefully we can turn the tide against climate change and be the catalyst that makes this planet a better place for good.