Why billionaires want to expand their horizons and buy cruise ship fleets

It was a cold and cloudy July day in Reykjavik and French arts patron Maryvonne Pinault was at a pier fulfilling her duties as godmother for Le Laperouse, the first of six 184-passenger, upmarket expedition yachts owned by her husband’s Marseilles-based cruise line Compagnie du Ponant. (scmp.com)