Category: DMI

Pioneering technologies for safe shipping

Pioneering technologies for safe shipping

Gepostet von | 7 Aug 2024 | , , , | 0

From 3 to 6 September, SMM will once again be a hotspot for the maritime industry. In addition to the main topics of decarbonisation and digitalisation, this year's focus will increasingly be on maritime security. Attacks by Houthi rebels on merchant ships in the Red Sea, geopolitical tensions in the Taiwan Strait, armed attacks by pirates in the Horn of Africa: the many critical security situations worldwide pose enormous challenges for the shipping industry. Martin Kröger, Managing Director of the German Shipowners' Association, rightly demands that the protection of ships and seafarers on the sea routes must be the top priority. The shipowners receive support from naval vessels that...

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New framework guidelines for overall defence

New framework guidelines for overall defence

Gepostet von | 17 Jun 2024 | , , , | 0

For a long time, Minister Pistorius appeared to be a lone voice in the wilderness when he called in public for war readiness and higher defence spending. The rest of the government and large sections of politics did not seem to be interested. Now, however, there has been a cabinet decision that extends far beyond the Ministry of Defence. On 5 June, the Federal Government issued new overall defence framework guidelines. Minister Pistorius presented them to the press together with his colleague from the Ministry of the Interior, Nancy Faeser. More important than the details of the content of this 57-page document is how it came about in the first place. For the first time in 35 years,...

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Change at the top of the DEUTSCHE MARITIMEN INSTITUT e.V. (DMI)

Change at the top of the DEUTSCHE MARITIMEN INSTITUT e.V. (DMI)

Gepostet von | 24 Apr 2024 | , | 1

At the DMI's general meeting on 19 April 2024 in Wilhelmshaven, the board was newly elected. Flotilla Admiral Christian Bock was replaced as Chairman by Flotilla Admiral Sascha Helge Rackwitz. Christian Bock has led the DMI since 2018. During his six-year term of office, the marineforum.online website was designed on his initiative and went online on 1 January 2021. In a very short time, marineforum.online developed into a successful platform. The portal now achieves an enormous reach of up to 60,000 hits per month, with three quarters of a million hits in 2023, the portal made a significant contribution to the formation of maritime opinion in Germany. The users from...

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New "BREMER DIALOGUE" format

New "BREMER DIALOGUE" format

Gepostet von | 20 Mar 2024 | , , , , | 0

PRESS RELEASE "BREMER DIALOGUE" MARITIME SECURITY AND NAVY 2035+: ON THE WAY TO "MULTI-DOMAIN OPERATIONS" The first Bremen Dialogue took place on 13 March 2024 at the invitation of the Chairman of the Executive Board of the German Maritime Institute Flotilla Admiral Christian Bock and the initiator and host Rheinmetall Electronics GmbH. The new format creatively promotes communication between maritime associations, industry and the Bundeswehr with the aim of improving mutual understanding. The aim was to discuss fields of action for integrated maritime security with a view to the NATO concept of multi-domain operations. The focus was on the question of what needs to be done in order to be able to fulfil the...

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