Maksym Stepanenko
Managing Partner, Crystal Tax
International client projects since 2012: company structures, tax, immigration, DUNS and NCAGE. 50+ jurisdictions.
Nowadays, the process of registering various offshore companies is carried out in order to carry out various trading, holding and financial operations. In addition to these, there are other tasks that offshore companies will do well. This includes such procedure as registration of yachts and ships. It is on the territory of Ukraine that the demand for this service has increased several times in recent years. But before you find out information about whether there is a need to obtain this service in a particular case, you can familiarize yourself with its main advantages.
The procedure such as registration of ships and rights to them has quite a large number of advantages, among which we can emphasize the following:
Because of these advantages, offshore registration of small vessels is quite a popular procedure among those who purchase them.

Registration of small vessels in Ukraine is a frequently used process. At the same time it is important to remember that from the side of international legislation it is yachts that belong to the category of real estate. Here it is important to note the fact that despite the fact that belonging goes to real estate, the vessels themselves have the property to move. Therefore, information about them must necessarily be entered in the special shipping register of the country in which the vessel will move.
It is important to note that the registration of a yacht under the flag of a particular country is determined directly by the shipowner. It does not matter what type of yacht is involved (sailing, motorized or mixed). Before proceeding to the procedure of choosing the flag of a particular country, at the first stage it is necessary to solve a lot of issues that may later affect the actual choice. Here it is important to clarify such points:
It is equally important to undertake the process of studying the economic and legal framework of the country in which the registration of sailing yachts and other types will be performed.
Before the registration of a yacht in Ukraine, initially it is necessary to understand what kind of vessels necessarily fall under this process. Among them are the following:
The owner of these types of vessels must necessarily go through the registration procedure.
If you need to register a yacht, but you can not realize this process on your own, you should turn to the experts of our company for help. Among the main advantages are:
So, if you need to register a motor yacht or any other type of vessel, you should turn to the experts of our company for help.
Maksym Stepanenko
Managing Partner, Crystal Tax
International client projects since 2012: company structures, tax, immigration, DUNS and NCAGE. 50+ jurisdictions.
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Corporate structuring, company registration in Ukraine and abroad, tax and reporting, migration, bank accounts, DUNS and NCAGE codes. We run the whole project, from choosing the solution to the finished documents.
Confidentiality terms are set out in our contract. We do not pass information about a client or their project to third parties, except where the law expressly requires it.
We compare jurisdictions against your business task: tax regime, reporting, substance requirements and access to banking. On the call we go through the upsides and the limits of each option.
We name the timeline for every step before the work starts — it depends on the jurisdiction, the registrar and the bank. Personal data is used only to deliver the service.
We handle the correspondence with registrars, government bodies and banks and answer their requests ourselves. From you we need documents and signatures.
We take each case to the finish: if an authority or registrar comes back with remarks, we revise the documents at no extra charge. The fee is calculated for your task before work starts.