Shipyard directory

The yards behind the world’s finest yachts.

A reference guide to the leading superyacht builders, production yards and luxury catamaran makers — with country, segment, parent group and Global Order Book standing reconciled into a single profile for each yard.

24 builders8 countries12 categories
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Segment
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Abeking & Rasmussen
Germany
Active
Custom · 50–90m

Technical excellence and precise engineering in custom motor yachts and explorer vessels, drawing on the yard's parallel naval and commercial shipbuilding.

Excellence (80m)Liva O (68m)
Est. 1907View profile
Amels / Damen Yachting
Netherlands
Active
Limited Editions & explorer · 55–90m

Part of the Damen shipbuilding group. The Amels Limited Editions range delivers pre-engineered platforms with custom styling at defined price points, alongside the SeaXplorer expedition line.

SeaXplorer 78Amels 80Here Comes The Sun (89m)
Est. 1918View profile
Azimut
Italy
GOB #1
Production & semi-custom · 12–44m

The motor-yacht arm of the Azimut|Benetti Group, the world's leading builder of 24m+ yachts by total length for 26 consecutive years. Broad range with hybrid options across much of the line.

Grande TrideckGrande 44mSeadeck series
Est. 1969View profile
Baglietto
Italy
GOB Top 19
Custom & semi-custom · 30–70m

One of Italy's oldest yards, building planing and displacement superyachts in steel and aluminium, with a distinctive blue-hull identity.

T52 seriesDOM (48m)
Est. 1854View profile
Benetti
Italy
GOB #1
Semi-custom & custom · 30–100m+

The superyacht arm of Azimut|Benetti, spanning semi-custom classes to fully bespoke flagships over 100m, with a growing hybrid B.Yond line.

IJE (108m)Lana (107m)Luminosity (107m)
Est. 1873View profile
Bilgin Yachts
Turkey
GOB Top 19
Custom motor · 40m+

A family-run Turkish yard specialising in fully custom motor yachts in the 40m-plus class, with its own in-house naval architecture.

Bilgin 263 (Tatiana, 80m)Leona (80m)
Est. 1996View profile
Codecasa
Italy
Active
Custom · 40–70m

A historic family yard building custom steel and aluminium displacement yachts with classic proportions and long-range capability.

Framura seriesCodecasa 65
Est. 1825View profile
CRN
Italy
Active
Custom · 50–90m

The fully custom steel-and-aluminium yard within the Ferretti Group, known for expressive Italian interiors and one-off engineering.

Chopi Chopi (80m)Cloud 9 (74m)
Est. 1963View profile
Feadship
Netherlands
GOB Top 4
Custom motor · 30m+

A cooperative of Royal Van Lent and Koninklijke De Vries, Feadship builds one-off motor yachts to exacting owner specification. Delivered Breakthrough, the first methanol-ready superyacht of its size.

Breakthrough (118.8m)Launchpad (118m)Savannah (83.5m)
Est. 1949View profile
Ferretti Yachts
Italy
GOB Top 2
Production & semi-custom motor

The flagship brand of the Ferretti Group, whose stable also includes Riva, Pershing, Custom Line, Wally, Itama, Mochi Craft and CRN. The Group withholds figures from the Global Order Book but has historically ranked among the top two builders.

Ferretti 1000INFYNITO 90Custom Line 140
Est. 1968View profile
Fountaine Pajot
France
Active
Production catamarans · sail & power

A leading production catamaran builder serving both private owners and the charter market, with sailing and power ranges from around 40 to 80 feet.

Aura 51Power 67Tanna 47
Est. 1976View profile
Heesen Yachts
Netherlands
GOB Top 19
Fast aluminium · 40–80m

Pioneers of all-aluminium and Fast Displacement hull design, known for high-performance motor yachts delivered on predictable timelines.

Project Cosmos (80m)Galactica Super Nova (70m)
Est. 1978View profile
Lagoon
France
Active
Production catamarans · sail & power

Part of Groupe Beneteau, Lagoon is one of the highest-volume catamaran brands worldwide, with an especially strong presence in the charter fleet.

Lagoon 51Lagoon 55SIXTY 5
Est. 1984View profile
Lürssen
Germany
GOB Top 5
Custom motor · 70m+

Builders of the world's largest and most technically complex fully custom superyachts, with an engineering pedigree unmatched in the industry. Home to record-setting deliveries and an early mover on methanol propulsion.

Azzam (180m)Dilbar (156m)Blue (160m)
Est. 1875View profile
Nobiskrug
Germany
Active
Custom · 60–140m

A large-yacht yard known for technically adventurous projects in steel and aluminium, including the striking Artefact and the sailing giant Sailing Yacht A.

Sailing Yacht A (143m)Artefact (80m)
Est. 1905View profile
Oceanco
Netherlands
Active
Custom · 80m+

Specialists in fully custom yachts over 80m, with a strong record in sustainable and diesel-electric propulsion. Built Koru, the largest sailing yacht in the world.

Koru (127m sail)Bravo Eugenia (109m)Jubilee (110m)
Est. 1987View profile
Perini Navi
Italy
Restructuring
Sailing superyachts · 40–90m

The name behind the most ambitious modern sailing superyachts, including Maltese Falcon. After a 2021 bankruptcy the brand and assets were acquired by The Italian Sea Group; its future remains uncertain as production sites have since been divested and the La Spezia yard put up for sale.

Maltese Falcon (88m)Seven (60m)
Est. 1983View profile
Princess Yachts
United Kingdom
Active
Production motor · 10–40m

A major British production builder spanning sports yachts, flybridge and the larger M and X Class superyacht range.

Princess X95Y95M Class 40M
Est. 1965View profile
Royal Huisman
Netherlands
Active
Sailing superyachts · 30–90m

Builder of some of the world's finest sailing superyachts in aluminium and composite, known for uncompromising engineering and the record-setting Sea Eagle II.

Sea Eagle II (81m)Athena (90m)
Est. 1884View profile
Sanlorenzo
Italy
GOB #2
Semi-custom · 24–70m+

Publicly listed on Borsa Italiana and consistently the second-largest builder of 24m+ yachts by total length. Bespoke Italian design across displacement, crossover and explorer lines; now includes sailing brand Nautor Swan.

Almax (SL120)SX series50Steel
Est. 1958View profile
Silent Yachts
Austria
Active
Solar-electric catamarans · 18–37m

Pioneers of solar-electric ocean cruising, whose catamarans can cross oceans on solar and battery power alone with near-silent operation.

Silent 80Silent 120 Explorer
Est. 2016View profile
Sunreef Yachts
Poland
GOB #6
Luxury catamarans · sail & power

The reference builder in luxury sailing and power catamarans, and the only catamaran-focused yard in the Global Order Book top ranks. Expanding fast with record large-cat sales and a second yard in the UAE.

100 Sunreef PowerSunreef 80Ultima 88
Est. 2002View profile
Sunseeker
United Kingdom
GOB Top 19
Production performance motor · 12–48m

Britain's best-known performance motor-yacht builder, moving steadily up-market into the superyacht segment with its Ocean and 100-plus ranges.

Sunseeker 100 YachtOcean 182Predator series
Est. 1969View profile
Turquoise Yachts
Turkey
Active
Custom · 45–90m

Turkey's leading custom builder in steel and aluminium, competing at the large end of the market with fully bespoke motor yachts.

Go (77m)Quantum of Solace (73m)
Est. 1997View profile