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The Best Yacht Management Companies in the World 

Home > Relevance Yacht News > The Best Yacht Management Companies in the World 

Posted by Joanna Lewis 14 Nov 2023

Managing a superyacht is a complex and time-consuming affair, which is why yacht owners entrust their vessels to the world’s best yacht management companies.

As a global leader in yacht marketing, Relevance Yacht has worked with multiple luxury yacht management companies over the course of the past decade, including some of the best yacht management companies globally.

Here, we take a look at a selection of some of the best yacht management companies tasked with managing the world’s largest superyachts.

Hill Robinson

Hill Robinson is a Relevance Yacht client and is considered a leading yacht management company. Unlike other yacht management companies that were born out of yacht sales and yacht charters, Hill Robinson was established with the sole purpose of managing the complexities of the world’s largest superyachts. 

With over two decades of expertise, Hill Robinson offers a complete portfolio of industry-leading yacht management services, including crew management services, yacht accounting and financial control, compliance and security, and technical and maintenance support. Hill Robinson offers a complete end-to-end private yacht management solution and has demonstrable experience managing the world’s finest superyachts and mega yachts.  

Moran Yacht & Ship

Moran Yacht & Ship is a leading US brokerage with global reach. They are known for brokering some of the world’s biggest superyacht deals in history and offer a complete portfolio of luxury yacht management services. Their superyacht prowess is unmatched by any other brokerage, which is led by a team of yacht brokers with intimate knowledge of the superyacht industry spanning yacht sales, charter, construction, and yacht management. 

Moran’s yacht management services are designed to offer stress-free yacht ownership with a full suite of services, including yacht operations management, yacht accounting, yacht safety and compliance, yacht maintenance, and superyacht crew registration and placement. 

As a long-term Relevance Yacht client, our team supports Moran with a range of digital marketing services, including lead generation for Ultra-High-Net-Worth-Indivdiuals through tailored pay-per-click and search engine optimisation services.

Relevance Yacht worked with YACHTZOO to help elevate its online presence with a tailored digital marketing strategy encompassing SEO, paid advertising, content marketing, public relations, and customer relationship management, helping the company become a globally recognised full-service yacht brokerage and one of the best yacht management companies. 

YACHTZOO offers a complete portfolio of yacht management services, taking care of every facet of a superyacht’s operation, including administration, maintenance, logistical support, and compliance with yacht regulations, relieving captains and owners of the time-consuming complexities of the day-to-day operations of a private yacht.  

Y.CO is a global full-service yacht brokerage and supplier of luxury yacht management services. The Y.CO team is known for going the extra mile across all their services, including sales, charters, and yacht management, ensuring a seamless yachting experience. Their expert support and encyclopedic insights on the yachting industry have led Y.CO to secure its position as one of the world’s best yacht management companies. 

Y.CO was initially established as a yacht management provider and, as such, offers round-the-clock yacht management services that are designed to surpass expectations. Their impressive global yacht management fleet is a testament to Y.CO’s expertise.

Burgess is considered a global leader in luxury yacht sales, charters, and management. 

Burgess’ yacht management services offer captains and owners a complete solution with a personalised service that is tailored to meet individual needs. All yacht management services are provided in-house and managed by a highly skilled yacht management team, ensuring every vessel is in safe hands. With more than 30 years of yacht management expertise, Burgess is consistently considered one of the world’s best yacht management companies.

Fraser is a yacht industry heavyweight, consistently ranked as a leading yacht brokerage. The global brokerage offers a complete roster of services, including sales, charters, new builds, and private yacht management. Fraser’s yacht management team oversees a fleet of over 100 vessels, from 24-metres to 100-metres+, ensuring the highest standards across all yacht operations.   

Relevance Yacht worked with Fraser for over a decade on all aspects of digital marketing, including SEO, content marketing, digital advertising, and website design and development. Our work with Fraser helped the brokerage dominate the Search Engine Results Pages across multiple high-volume keywords related to yacht sales, yacht charters, and yacht management, showing the benefits of a long-term digital marketing strategy managed by yacht marketing experts. 

Relevance Yacht: the world’s leading yacht marketing agency

Relevance Yacht is a leading yacht marketing agency. Our full-service creative and yacht marketing services have helped many of the world’s best yacht management companies stand out in a saturated market and dominate the SERPs for keywords related to their unique business offerings. If you want to learn more about our 360 yacht marketing services, contact a team member or browse our company presentation.

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Yacht Management Q&A

Yacht management guide.

Flawless superyacht management services form the cornerstone of a well-managed yacht. YACHTZOO offers bespoke yacht management services that provide trouble-free ownership and peace of mind. 

Here, YACHTZOO’s yacht management team,  answers some of the most frequently asked questions regarding superyacht management , including why it is so important, what it entails, some of the biggest challenges, the onboarding process, and cutting-edge yacht management proprietary tools.   

A guide to YACHTZOO’s superyacht management services

Why is it essential that yacht owners work with an experienced yacht management company such as yachtzoo .

We have the template for a successful superyacht management operation and good working examples to draw from. Each luxury yach t is unique in various respects, including ownership, size of the vessel, type of operation, and crew. However, the underlying principles of a successful yacht management operation remain the same and can be expressed as communication, clarity and competence.

What are some of the biggest challenges with superyacht management? 

The term “management” implies a level of responsibility and control; however,  yacht management companies are never employers or Owners. Therefore responsibility is only defined in a management agreement, which is an agency agreement, and we all know that it is unwise to take responsibility for something that you have no control over. 

Therefore, a key challenge is to provide the type of support and infrastructure where solutions are actioned effectively, and the various stakeholders understand the role that they need to play in the operation, respect the chain of command and ‘make things happen.’ 

Some 80% of the issues our yacht management company deals with are self-created through a lack of good communication and misplaced egos.

Another challenge revolves around the fact that superyacht management as a business model works on small margins and is often (mistakenly) considered as an add-on to the brokerage function of a Company – a mechanism to retain the client after a sale. This can lead to some confusion over the scope of the yacht management service and resources allocated. It needs good governance within an organization to ensure that the yacht management team has the right tools and direction.

A further superyacht management challenge worth mentioning is created by the banking or fiscal sector as they try to deal with ever-evolving Anti Money Laundering regulations and Know Your Client requirements. Operational bank account, funding, credit card provision and accounting on spend are vital aspects of any yachting operation, and the knock-on effects of delays or restrictions to funds and payments are a common challenge.

Has the pandemic made superyacht management an even more challenging area?  

The pandemic has made everything more challenging and has changed how we communicate, do business, and travel. From the superyacht management perspective, the initial challenge was to deal with a myriad of different reactions in an ever-changing environment while facing the unknown. Unfortunately, yacht crew (and shipping crew in general) have borne the brunt of this challenge as governments around the world offer different levels of recognition to the seafarer as an essential worker, which affect how they can travel or the priority they are given in vaccination programmes in countries where they are non-resident. Yacht agencies, management companies, employers, crew union bodies and other stakeholders have provided support and lobbying at various levels under trying conditions.

Does YACHTZOO use any industry-leading proprietary tools to help ensure a more seamless superyacht management service? 

We use Sealogical as our key collaboration platform and window into the various elements of the yacht operation – from knowing where the yacht is, who is onboard, next of kin details, leave accrued, certificate expiries through to technical worklists, risk assessments and defect reporting. We also use Quickbooks and DEXT to deliver on our yacht accounting obligations and iAuditor to provide appropriate checks and measures.

What is YACHTZOO’s onboarding process, and why is this a vital stage?  

The importance of onboarding should not be underestimated and is the true test of communication, clarity, and competence. Broadly speaking, we need to integrate the various tools and methods that we use to provide the required level of visibility into the operation with the actual operation onboard. The level of support required differs in each operation, and we aim to provide a good level of comfort to the Owner and the Captain that risks are properly assessed and diligence is duly undertaken in all respects. We can only do this through good collaboration and use of the tools we provide under our superyacht management infrastructure, which is highlighted during the onboarding process.

Finally, what sets YACHTZOO apart from other superyacht management companies? 

We don’t try to set our services apart from other superyacht management companies . We have a set of tools, experience, industry connections and the common goal of ensuring that yacht Owners enjoy their yachting experience and keep supporting the industry. If a yacht Owner walks away from the industry because they have had a bad experience, then this is bad for us all, and the source of that experience should be held to account. Some of us do a better job than others. We like to think that at YACHTZOO, we use the tools well and genuinely care enough to make a difference.

If you would like to learn more about YACHTZOO’s leading superyacht management services, then contact a member of our team.

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