Jeff Bezos' $500M superyacht is so colossal it's too big for ports and must dock next to oil tankers
Published on Sep 08, 2025 at 4:22 AM (UTC+4)
by Alessandro Renesis
Last updated on Sep 04, 2025 at 3:22 PM (UTC+4)
Edited by
Emma Matthews
Koru, the $500 million superyacht owned by Jeff Bezos, is too large for most ports.
This is a recurring problem for Bezos, because it means he needs to rely on tenders and smaller watercraft to reach the port in most places.
Even his other superyacht, Abeona, is way too large.
Bezos’s ‘issue’ takes the concept of ‘first world problems’ to a whole other level.
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Koru is larger than some oil tankers
This is probably the most first world problem of all first world problems that first world ever problemed, but a problem it is.
Koru, Jeff Bezos’s first yacht – because he has another one – is too large for most ports, and generally needs to be docked near oil tankers, even though the vessel is larger than some of those as well.
Koru is 417 feet long, equivalent to 127 meters, with a beam of 56 feet (17.2 meters).
This means Koru is longer than a soccer pitch and a basketball court put together, and wider than eight Humvees parked side by side.
When the yacht was launched for the first time, back in 2022, the city of Rotterdam in the Netherlands even considered dismantling a historic bridge because Oceanco, the shipyard that built it, wasn’t sure it would fit.
Fortunately, the yacht did fit, but only because it was towed from the shipyard without masts.
A recurring ‘problem’
Earlier this year, Jeff Bezos’s Koru wasn’t allowed to anchor anywhere near Monaco and, as a result, he had to use speedboats to get to the F1 Monaco Grand Prix.
The same thing happened in Venice, when port authorities told him he’d have to leave the boat far away from the port because the vessel was simply too big to fit.
Not only that, apparently, even his second yacht, Abeona, was also too large for Venice.
This is why Bezos and his guests often have to resort to speedboats and smaller yachts.
But that’s probably not that big of an issue.
When you’re worth $240 billion, very few things are.
