A Dutch port city is dismantling a historic bridge to make room for Jeff Bezos’ superyacht and people are NOT happy.
Rotterdam will temporarily break down the Koningshavenbrug Bridge because Bezos’ $485 million yacht won’t fit.
It’s being built by the Oceano shipyard in the Netherlands and will pass through the port city. Bezos will pay for the deconstruction and rebuilding of the bridge.
The city’s mayor’s office told said that dismantling the bridge creates jobs for the community and will quickly be rebuilt to its original form.
It’s the only route to the sea.”
According to Boat International,
Oceanco Y721 is a 127 metre sailing yacht currently in build at Oceanco in the Netherlands. She is understood to be a three-masted schooner with an aluminium and steel construction reportedly commissioned for Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Once delivered, not only will she become the world’s largest sailing yacht but she will also hold the title for the largest superyacht ever built in the Netherlands.
Rep Adam Schiff, tweeted that as one of the richest men in the history of the world, Bezos’ money source, Amazon, should pay its fair share in taxes,
…so we can build bridges in America.”
Built in 1878, the Koningshavenbrug bridge was bombed by the Nazis in during World War II and reconstructed.
(Photo, Oceano; via USA Today)
