Whether the $500m, 142m, ultraluxury Nord will still head to Cape Town after the Maldives, an archipelagic state in the Indian Ocean just south of India, is not clear.
The Nord superyacht in Hong Kong, China, on 14 October 2022.
Then, earlier this month, some yachting news sites said it had been detected in the Addu Atoll of the Maldives. But if the Nord was in Vladivostok, it doesn’t make sense for it to leave the safety of that port merely to avoid being seized. While steel billionaire Mordashov is on the US sanctions list, Nord is not, officials toldEven so, Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis wrote to International Relations and Cooperation Minister Naledi Pandor last month, urging her not to allow the Nord to dock in Cape Town.
Hill-Lewis said South Africa’s position on the war — of non-alignment — was “shameful”, and preventing Nord from entering South Africa would save its image in the global community.
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