MARINE CONSULTING MC SARL
Marine Consulting Monaco was founded by Michael Kurtz in 2000 as a claims management company to assist Pantaenius Monaco – where Michael was the Managing Director from 1997 to 2018.
In 2014 Stefano Ruscitti, Founder and Manager of the yacht survey company Sea Metria Srl, joined Marine Consulting Monaco as a Partner.
Today, Marine Consulting MC handles the technical aspects of new-build yacht management, project management and surveys, and specializes in difficult and complex cases where an extensive, worldwide network of reliable partners is needed.
NEWBUILD MANAGEMENT
Our service begins in the early days of a project, supporting the owner with advice and specification requirements on the technical side to ensure that an adequate and accurate specification is supplied to the shipyard.
Our extensive experience acquired over many years and managing many successful projects, enables us to take a more intuitive approach – we can foresee where problems may arise, we can intervene and mitigate inefficiencies before they effect a project, and we remain on hand as advisers during the contract stage and further still during the construction.
We protect our clients from major quality, legal, and financial problems.
As owner’s representatives, we supervise shipyard processes and verify the quality of subcontractors to assure full contractual compliance.
Upon launch, we supervise the tests and sea trials and continue our careful management of the project. And our service doesn’t stop upon delivery of the yacht to the owner, we continue to provide our specialist support throughout the after-sale guarantee and warranty period.
Whether converting, refitting, or repairing a yacht, professional and diligent project management is required.
We work closely with the crew and shipyard, liaising between all parties, to ensure clear communication, compliance to specification, accuracy, efficiency, and a timely delivery.
Our wide experience enables us to finely tune each decision, conveying the necessary details to mitigate the potential for error.
REFIT & REPAIR MANAGEMENT
Whenever yard time is at stake, be it for class renewal, maintenance and repair, new paint, or conversion to realize what you ever dreamt of, our experience, knowledge and contacts to the industry, will assure you get what you pay for.
INSURANCE SURVEYS
Claim Adjustment and on-site Claim Management is the core of our business.
We have long-standing and trusted relationships with the leading yacht hull underwriters in Europe of the last 35 years.
Our direct management of expensive claims, including the day-to-day liaison with marine lawyers, facilities a more individual way of achieving results.
CONDITION and VALUATION SURVEYS
As truly independent surveyors, our detailed and conclusive reports become essential documents when considering the purchase of a yacht.
Our reports are compiled with the sole purpose of protecting the interests of our customers.
YACHT MANAGEMENT
Fed up with cost in-transparency, pay-or-die - or yet another out of service situation of your yacht ?
Marine Consulting offers customized Yacht Management services to a handful of owners.
• 20 years of experience with boutique-type management
• slim structure
• no marketing costs
• no company overheads
• first-class network to hardware & service providers
MICHAEL KURTZ
Michael studied economics in Hamburg, Germany. After university, he joined Pantaenius Yacht Insurance in 1984.
Working from Hamburg, Michael ran the claim department for Pantaenius.
Michael personally followed up with the larger claim cases, wherever in the world an accident may’ve occurred, and he controlled the administration and negotiation of hundreds of high-value, complex claims.
In 1992, Michael founded Marine Claims Service (MCS) – a daughter company of Pantaenius in Hamburg.
In the mid 1990s, Michael moved to Monaco to establish Pantaenius Monaco 1997 and later, in 2006, Pantaenius Palma.
Directly involved as investigator and claim manager, Michael has a record of accomplished claims for the recovering and disclosing of 350+ yachts – all of which apparently stolen, sunk or total losses from fire. This reputation quickly earned Michael the nickname, ‘Mike the gun’.
Michael is a keen yacht and dinghy racer (Dragons/Finn) and a member of the NORDDEUTSCHE REGATTA VEREIN since 1968. Michael is also member of the Monaco and Cannes Yacht Club.
As a result of his years spent travelling for work and the requirement for high quality photos, today he is also a critically acclaimed yacht photographer – see his work at https://www.michaelkurtzphoto.com and on Instagram.
STEFANO RUSCITTI
Stefano studied naval architecture in Genoa, but his yachting career started when he was hired by Michael Kurtz in 1991 for a role in Pantaenius’ claim department in Hamburg.
Stefano’s passion for yachts and his exceptional language skills made him an asset to the company, and Stefano was integral to the company’s international growth as an insurance broker.
Stefano went on to support Pantaenius as an independent surveyor in the more difficult Italian market, until he founded the survey company Sea Metria SRL in Genoa, in 2003.
Over the last 35 years, Stefano has followed a vast number of refit and new built projects.
In 2014, Stefano sold Sea Metria Srl to his partners and moved to Monaco - joining Michael Kurtz as a Partner in Marine Consulting MC SARL.
