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"A yacht can be a remarkable object. What interests us is what you will do with it."
Abdu Ali, CEO & Founder
ABOUT ARTA
An independent house, shaped by different horizons.
ARTA is an independent yacht brokerage house born from a journey across different countries, cultures and a shared connection to the sea.
We support our clients with yacht acquisition, sales and charter, through a deliberately personal approach: understanding what they are looking for, but also how they want to experience their yacht.
OUR FOUNDER
Abdu Ali
Born in Djibouti, Abdu Ali left his home country as a teenager for New York before moving to Toronto. His journey later took him back to Djibouti, then to Dubai, Barbados, London and, today, France.
Over the years, he has worked across very different professional environments, from business development to international operations, while maintaining a natural ability to connect people, cultures and worlds.
A French and English speaker, he also speaks Arabic and two languages from the Horn of Africa. Moving naturally between different environments has become an important part of the way he works.
A long time enthusiast of yachting, as well as cars, watches and objects where design meets function, he sees a yacht less as a technical object than for what it makes possible: travelling, entertaining, discovering a place differently and sharing time with others.
After several entrepreneurial ventures, creating ARTA was a way to bring these different threads together in a project that reflects who he is.
OUR PHILOSOPHY
People as much as yachts.
Choosing a yacht is not simply about length, shipyard or specifications. Two clients looking for a 25 metre yacht may, in reality, be looking for two completely different things.
We want to know who will be on board. Where you like to go. How you entertain. Whether your days start early or end late. Whether the yacht will be a place to reconnect with family, travel with friends or simply escape for a few days.
It is often these details that reveal what you are really looking for.
This is also why ARTA remains deliberately independent. Every relationship is handled personally, with enough proximity to understand a project beyond its individual criteria.
A yacht can be a remarkable object. What interests us is what you will do with it.
OUR EXPERTISE
From the first project to your first hours on board.
ARTA works across sales, acquisition and charter, as well as valuation, marketing and owner advisory.
Our knowledge of the French Riviera and the wider Mediterranean market naturally plays an important part in our work, alongside an international network of brokers and industry professionals.
Motor yachts, sailing yachts or catamarans. Our search begins less with a category of yacht than with the purpose it needs to serve.
Charter holds a particular place at ARTA. A journey on board does not begin on the day you step aboard. The choice of yacht, crew, destinations and pace of the itinerary already shape much of the experience.
Our role is to think through these elements in advance, so that once on board, there is mostly time left for what made you want to set sail in the first place.
OUR STORY
ARTA, somewhere between its origins and the sea.
ARTA takes its name from a town in Djibouti, the country where Abdu was born. Set at around 750 metres above sea level, Arta overlooks the Gulf of Tadjourah and is known for its relatively mild climate, rugged landscapes and coastline.
Choosing this name was a simple way of preserving a connection to his origins within a house whose outlook is firmly international.
After New York, Toronto, Djibouti, Dubai, Barbados, London and Paris, ARTA is also a natural extension of a life shaped by moving between countries, languages and perspectives.
The house was created to remain independent. A human scale structure, able to work across borders without losing what lies at the heart of its approach: knowing the people we work with and remaining directly involved in their projects.
ARTA is based in France and works with clients and partners across the Mediterranean and internationally.
