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World Leader in Yacht Transport
We are Sevenstar. We make the world smaller.
- Experience: 40 years of experience est. 1985
- Ship owner: Over 140 company owned vessels
- Dedicated team: Worldwide offices
- In-house: Operations, Engineers and Loadmasters
- Service: Overall smooth operation
We are Sevenstar
Richard Klabbers
Managing Director
The Netherlands
Richard is the Managing Director of Sevenstar Yacht Transport and has over 25 years of experience in the industry. He founded the business and built it into the world leader in yacht transport. Richard is a hands on leader specializing in Exceptional Marine Transport (EMT).
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Uta Scarlata
Sales USA
USA East Coast
Uta Scarlata established Sevenstar Yacht Transport’s USA presence with the successful launch of our Florida office in 2005. For more than a decade, Uta has overseen the USA, Caribbean and European yacht transport markets. Uta’s experience and passion for her clients will ensure you and your yacht receive first class service throughout the transportation process.
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Jan Maarten Boissevain
Commercial Director
The Netherlands
Jan Maarten has a long standing career in shipping and yacht transport. Heading up the Commercial Team in Amsterdam he is keen on getting every detail right for clients at all times. This makes him a highly valued person in the company.
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Charles Massey
Sales Asia
Hong Kong
Charles is active in the yacht transport business for almost 20 years. Since 2014 he has operated from Hong Kong and is responsible for the Asian market. His profound knowledge and experience makes him the right man for all your transport related questions. Work makes him a very frequent traveler.
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Nic Kühne
Trade Manager: Transatlantic Yacht Logistics
The Netherlands
Nic Kühne is based at our Amsterdam headquarters, where he brings over a decade of experience in the shipping industry and a real passion for making things run smoothly. He’s the go-to person for moving yachts across the Atlantic, whether they’re heading to Europe, the U.S., or the Caribbean. With a hands-on approach and a friendly, can-do attitude, Nic is known for going the extra mile to ensure every shipment is handled with care and precision. His deep industry knowledge and commitment to service make him a trusted partner for clients around the world.
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Alisha Hickling
Sales New Zealand
New Zealand
Alisha is an important contact for Sevenstar in the Pacific. She maintains a wide network of contacts in New Zealand and beyond which she helps her in leveraging to clients’ benefit. In her personal and professional life she is known to be a very lively, full of energy character.
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Andrew Pickering
Sales UK
UK
Andrew is Sevenstar’s client service star performer! His amiable communications skills and eye for detail makes your yacht transportation a smooth and happy ride leaving you to relax in the knowledge your vessel is being looked after. Andrew is responsible for UK clients transporting their yachts worldwide.
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Astrid Schulte
Sales USA
USA East Coast
Astrid is a valuable Dutch asset to the international team in Palm Beach, Florida. She is very focused and conscientious in her work combined with her open personality makes her a great contact for her clients. She is responsible for the USA, Australia and Asia yacht transport market.
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Chris Jongerius
Sales Asia
Thailand, Malaysia & Singapore
Chris is like the Swiss army knife: full of skills, a variety of specialties and experience in more than one trade, this makes him the ideal person to service Sevenstar’s transport clients in Asia and especially Phuket.
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Dave Starkey
Trade Manager: Continent to Mediterranean
UK
Dave is a well appreciated member of the Sevenstar UK team in Southampton. Experienced in both Liner specialist transports and chartering on our own vessels, Dave has worked for large shipping carriers making his knowledge and relationships valuable to Sevenstar. He is currently responsible for yacht transports to and from Northern Europe and Mediterranean.
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Dean Sharples
Sales Australia
Australia
Dean is the veteran in maritime services and yacht transport. With his extensive knowledge he can drum up any yacht transport solution for any client around the world and especially Australia.
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Douglas Rapier
Sales Martinique
Martinique
Douglas is well known in Martinique for his knowledge and experience in maritime services. He is French/English bilingual and a very valuable base in the Caribbean for Sevenstar.
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Janik Maaß
Sales Germany
Germany
Janik looks after our German clients with a focus on Europe. He works within the German Sevenstar team and he will ensure his customers receive a first class service.
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Julia Sebastiani
Sales Germany
Germany
Julia looks after our German clients who are transporting their yachts Worldwide. She operates within the German Sevenstar team and can frequently be found at one of our boat shows.
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Kris Caren
Sales USA
USA West Coast
Kris started his career working in Amsterdam, Spain and the Monaco office for the Spliethoff Group, Sevenstar's parent company. In 2014, Kris moved to San Francisco to support the North and Central American yacht transport markets. He speaks fluently French, English and Spanish.
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Lachlan Taylor
Sales Australia
Australia
Lachlan is a key contact in our Australian office. He is an active and appreciated promoter of the yacht transport business on social media platforms. He is also an energetic person that loves his sports.
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Levent Bayir
Sales Turkiye & Middle East
Turkiye
Levent is a professional yacht transport specialist who founded Sevenstar Office in Turkiye. He is your point of contact for yachts travelling to and from Turkiye, East Mediterranean and Middle East. With his entrepreneurial spirit Levent helps clients to find creative solutions to their transport needs.
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Murat Demir
Sales Eastern Mediterranean & Arabian Gulf
Turkiye
Murat recently graduated in logistics and gained experience working with Sevenstar Turkiye as a shipping agent during his studies. Now, based in the Istanbul office, he will focus on both sales and customer relations. As a young, eager member of the team, he is your point of contact for yachts traveling to and from Turkey, the Eastern Mediterranean, and the Middle East.
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Marieke Derks
Sales Asia
Thailand & Malaysia
Marieke is fully emerged in the yachting World of Thailand and Malaysia. Her client focussed and professional approach has built a solid base for yacht transport between Asia and the rest of the World. She is a passionate destination expert for cruising in Southeast Asia.
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Matthieu Le Bihan
Sales France
France West Coast
Matthieu is well established in offshore racing in France and beyond. He has worked and lived in the Caribbean and Brazil and speaks Portuguese, French and English. Based on the West Coast of France and is looking the needs of our French clients as well as all the French yacht builders. He is very passionate about delivering his work at the highest standards.
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Max Bolweg
Operations Manager & Customer Support
The Netherlands
Max started his career in the Spliethoff crew department before joining Sevenstar. Max is an enthusiastic sailor and sports person making him very focused on getting things done.
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Max Stepanov
Manager of Operations
The Netherlands
Sevenstar’s Operational Team is the core of Sevenstar’s yacht transport business. Members of the Operational Team offer operational excellence through highly experienced in-house engineering and planning resources.
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Sean Lines
Deputy Manager of Operations
The Netherlands
Sevenstar’s Operational Team is the core of Sevenstar’s yacht transport business. Members of the Operational Team offer operational excellence through highly experienced in-house engineering and planning resources.
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Valerio Del Becaro
Sales Monaco
Monaco
Valerio is Sevenstar’s multi lingual power house based in Monaco. He has been transporting yachts for the past 20 years making him a great source of knowledge to clients and colleagues and specialist in the Italian - French Riviera, USA and all other exotic destinations worldwide.
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Wiebke Bokelmann-Ratha
Trade Manager: USA East to USA West & Asia v.v
Transatlantic
Wiebke started working at the Amsterdam head office in June 2013 and developed the Transatlantic trade out of Northern Europe from scratch. As from July 2017 she was based in the Singapore office to develop the local market and to support the Sevenstar team in Asia. When she moved back in 2019 she took over the transatlantic trade and is running the USA East to West & Asia trade since 2021.
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Willemijn van Renterghem
Marketing & Communications
The Netherlands
After many years as a self-employed marketer, Willemijn joined the Sevenstar team in October 2016, eager to dive into the world of Yacht Transport. With a strong background in luxury marketing, public relations, live events, and online marketing, she brings a wealth of experience to the table.
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Dominic Paul
Loadmaster
Spain
Sevenstar’s Operational Team is the core of Sevenstar’s yacht transport business. Members of the Operational Team offer operational excellence through highly experienced in-house engineering and planning resources. Loadmasters fly around the world ensuring meticulous execution while loading or discharging yachts of all sizes.
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Edward Schol
Loadmaster
The Netherlands
Sevenstar’s Operational Team is the core of Sevenstar’s yacht transport business. Members of the Operational Team offer operational excellence through highly experienced in-house engineering and planning resources. Loadmasters fly around the world ensuring meticulous execution while loading or discharging yachts of all sizes.
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Elodie Le Blevenec
Sales France
France West Coast
In her career, Elodie explored many facets of the nautical industry: sailing, skippering (technic), chartering, managing a day charter company, managing a network of agents in a shipyard and now yacht shipping. After many years abroad, Elodie is now well implanted in La Rochelle.
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Geert de Krom
Loadmaster
The Netherlands
Geert de Krom is a loadmaster for Sevenstar and DYT since 2014, with prior experience as a professional yacht skipper and competitive sailor. With a focus on expertise, he ensures smooth and efficient transport of yachts across the globe.
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Guido Seeleman
Loadmaster
The Netherlands
Sevenstar’s Operational Team is the core of Sevenstar’s yacht transport business. Members of the Operational Team offer operational excellence through highly experienced in-house engineering and planning resources. Loadmasters fly around the world ensuring meticulous execution while loading or discharging yachts of all sizes.
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James Gruner
Loadmaster
UK
Sevenstar’s Operational Team is the core of Sevenstar’s yacht transport business. Members of the Operational Team offer operational excellence through highly experienced in-house engineering and planning resources. Loadmasters fly around the world ensuring meticulous execution while loading or discharging yachts of all sizes.
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Jan Moolman
Yard Manager West Palm Beach / Loadmaster
USA East Coast
Sevenstar’s Operational Team is the core of Sevenstar’s yacht transport business. Members of the Operational Team offer operational excellence through highly experienced in-house engineering and planning resources. Loadmasters fly around the world ensuring meticulous execution while loading or discharging yachts of all sizes.
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Marie-Eugenie Kieffer
Sales Martinique
Martinique
Marie-Eugénie started to work as a sea freight forwarder, then as a GSA in the airfreight market in France, followed by 6 years as a sailor in the Caribbean and Mediterranean seas. Since 2014, she is part of Douglas Yacht Services in Martinique, a well know yacht Agent in the Caribbean Islands.
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Marian Minoiu
Project Manager / Engineering
The Netherlands
Sevenstar’s Operational Team is the core of Sevenstar’s yacht transport business. Members of the Operational Team offer operational excellence through highly experienced in-house engineering and planning resources.
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Paul Miller
Loadmaster
UK
Sevenstar’s Operational Team is the core of Sevenstar’s yacht transport business. Members of the Operational Team offer operational excellence through highly experienced in-house engineering and planning resources. Loadmasters fly around the world ensuring meticulous execution while loading or discharging yachts of all sizes.
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Rene Berger
Project Manager / Engineering
Asia - Pacific
Rene is a seasoned seafarer with over two decades of experience as a deck and engineer officer, and 15 years as Master Mariner on the Spliethoff group fleet. In 2011, he joined the Sevenstar team - BSc Marine Operations, BSc Mechanical Engineering.
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Robert Jones
Loadmaster
Australia
Sevenstar’s Operational Team is the core of Sevenstar’s yacht transport business. Members of the Operational Team offer operational excellence through highly experienced in-house engineering and planning resources. Loadmasters fly around the world ensuring meticulous execution while loading or discharging yachts of all sizes.
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Rod Jenkins
Loadmaster
UK
Sevenstar’s Operational Team is the core of Sevenstar’s yacht transport business. Members of the Operational Team offer operational excellence through highly experienced in-house engineering and planning resources. Loadmasters fly around the world ensuring meticulous execution while loading or discharging yachts of all sizes.
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Ruben Vries
Operations Yard Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Ruben works on the Sevenstar yard where the vast supply of materials come together and have to be rearranged for future transports. This is no easy task but Ruben and the team take it on with perseverance and dedication, ensuring safe and sound transport equipment for the loadmasters to work with.
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Anton Kasatkin
Loadmaster
Mexico
Since 2009, he has been associated with the international shipping business. He sailed on multi-purpose vessels as a Chief officer all around the world. In 2020, he has joined our Sevenstar Yacht Transport team as a Loadmaster.
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Tom Wylie
Loadmaster
Spain
Sevenstar’s Operational Team is the core of Sevenstar’s yacht transport business. Members of the Operational Team offer operational excellence through highly experienced in-house engineering and planning resources. Loadmasters fly around the world ensuring meticulous execution while loading or discharging yachts of all sizes.
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Kevin Visser
Trade Manager Continent to USA & Caribs v.v.
The Netherlands
Kevin holds a Master of Law in Maritime and Transport Law. After gaining practical shipping experience in our operations department, Kevin is now our Trade Manager for the Continent to the USA and the Caribbean and vice versa. He will make sure our clients get the best service.
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Bram van der Zee
Loadmaster
The Netherlands
Sevenstar’s Operational Team is the core of Sevenstar’s yacht transport business. Members of the Operational Team offer operational excellence through highly experienced in-house engineering and planning resources. Loadmasters fly around the world ensuring meticulous execution while loading or discharging yachts of all sizes.
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Alido Ribeiro Silva
Loadmaster
The Netherlands
Sevenstar’s Operational Team is the core of Sevenstar’s yacht transport business. Members of the Operational Team offer operational excellence through highly experienced in-house engineering and planning resources. Loadmasters fly around the world ensuring meticulous execution while loading or discharging yachts of all sizes.
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Laura Mattiello
Operations Manager
The Netherlands
Laura joined Sevenstar after a long experience in Genoa as former port and customs agent. Member now of the Operational Team helps clients giving them all the assistance they need.
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Chantal Smits
Marketing & communications
The Netherlands
As a content marketer, Chantal has extensive online marketing experience in various sectors. She is very familiar with social media and websites, highly skilled with computers and systems, and has collaborated with diverse influencers, successfully managing impressive projects. And as icing on the cake, she comes from a maritime family, which means she certainly has an affinity with shipping.
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Jennifer Kincaid
Sales USA
USA East Coast
Jennifer is new to the yacht shipping realm but not to the world of boating. She comes to us with an extensive customer service background as well as experience in the maintenance / service department for Sportfishing yachts. Her maintenance knowledge as well as her charter mate and charter manager background makes her an ideal candidate to be able to assist with all your transportation needs.
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Leroy Ubbink
Sales Spain, Portugal & Gibraltar
Spain
A year ago, my family and I made the exciting move from the Netherlands to Mallorca. With 18 years at Stork, including 8 as a Valve Service manager, my background may differ, but my enthusiasm for the shipping industry is boundless. Today, I proudly serve as Sales Representative Spain at Sevenstar. My goal is simple: to provide the best possible service to our customers in Spain and beyond. I'm committed to delivering top-notch solutions and support.
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Dounia El Battioui
Sales Associate
The Netherlands
With 7 years background experience in the RORO shipping, she starts a new adventure at Sevenstar Yacht Transport. Dounia will support the Sales team on the Asia, New Zeeland & Australia trade. She brings a fresh wave of enthusiasm and dedication to our team, with passion for excellence and a commitment to exceptional service. She is also ready to navigate the seas of yacht transport with making connections and delivering unparalleled solutions to our valued clients.
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Juliette Verkerk
Marketing & Communications
The Netherlands
After years of working at advertising agencies, I joined Sevenstar Yacht Transport and DYT Yacht Transport in December 2022 as a Marketing Communication Specialist. Throughout my career, I have never focused on just one medium. Instead, I have had the opportunity to work across the full marketing spectrum, from traditional advertising and events to digital campaigns and online activations. That variety is what continues to inspire me every day. Yacht transport is a fascinating industry. No two days are the same, and I genuinely enjoy the combination of marketing, international logistics, and the people behind it. One of the aspects I enjoy most is travelling to boat shows and maritime destinations around the world. Walking through marinas, meeting yacht owners, captains, brokers, and industry professionals, and hearing their stories gives me valuable insights into the yachting community and the challenges they face. Outside of work, anything that floats on water immediately catches my attention, with a particular soft spot for classic wooden sailing yachts. The sound of water against a hull and the sparkle of sunlight on the sea never fail to make me smile. At home, I am a proud mother of two wonderful children and a dog, who keep life busy, entertaining, and full of adventure.
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Joel Bestard Wirtz
Loadmaster
Spain
I started back in 2008 as a diver. I believe this job is a lifestyle. Traveling around the world brings the excellence of yacht transport to another level. As a Loadmaster for Sevenstar and Chief diver for DYT, I’ve been lucky to meet and learn from the top elite in the sector. Pushing limits to innovate with the security and safety that brings a backup of years of experience, we find new horizons to improve ourselves and our job.
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- North America West - San Francisco
- North America East - USA Agencies (Palm Beach)
- North America East - Newport
- Caribbean - Martinique
- Mediterranean - Gibraltar, Mainland Spain, Portugal & Morocco
- Northern Europe - United Kingdom
- Northern Europe - France
- Northern Europe - The Netherlands
- Northern Europe - Germany
- Mediterranean - Monaco
- Mediterranean - Turkey
- Asia South East - Thailand & Malaysia
- Asia South East - Singapore
- Asia North - Hong Kong
- Asia North - Beijing
- Pacific - Australia
- Pacific - New Zealand
- Northern Europe - Russia
- Dubai
- Asia South-East - Seychelles
- Northern Europe - France
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