That currently, or actually since April 2020, the brokerage market is experiencing an upswing can be confirmed not only by shipyards and brokers, but also by suppliers and insurers. All in all, 2020 was a good business year, albeit mainly due to COVID-19. Social distancing works just fine on board - on the high seas or even in a nice bay on the Balearics. But what happens when this pandemic is put to rest and other megatrends, first and foremost the climate debate, take up much more space again?Then, and some shipyards are already preparing for this, the sustainability issue will become a very important one. Sailing is already experiencing an upswing; and not only among the German owner of a 22-metre yacht from YYachts, whom we may quote here, says something like: »Inspired by a crossing from Mallorca to Sardinia, to which a friend who had previously switched from a motor yacht to a Y8 had taken me, I started looking around for sailing boats on the web. Shortly before this trip, I had taken my motor yacht out for a cruise in the Adriatic. That was also nice, but we used about 40,0001 of diesel.«
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