Russian naval activity in the run-up to BALTOPS 2025 in the Skagerrak and western Baltic On 20 May 2025, the Russian frigate "Admiral Kasatonov" (project 22350) left its home port of Severomorsk. Together with the Udaloy class destroyer "Vitse Admiral Kulakov" (Project 1155), she was sighted in the Skagerrak on 26 May. While...
There was a premiere on 12 June 2025. The German Navy's new ocean-going tug "Rügen" deployed to the Aegean and is now the second civilian-crewed ship to take part in the Aegean mission. Under the command of Captain Lutz Lücken, the ocean-going tug is making its way to its first deployment in the Aegean...
Seven years after the collision between the Norwegian frigate "Helge Ingstad" and the tanker "Sola TS", the Norwegian Ministry of Defence and the Spanish shipyard Navantia have reached an out-of-court settlement. According to an announcement on the Norwegian government website (https://www.regjeringen.no/) on 2 June 2025, the settlement includes discounts equivalent to up to 47.5...
The time has finally come. On 15 June 2025, Bundestag President Julia Klöckner will open the central ceremony for the first Veterans' Day at the Reichstag building in Berlin. In the late afternoon, Bryan Adams will give a tour of his photo exhibition in the Reichstag building before Defence Minister Boris Pistorius presents veterans' badges in the early evening. Diversity, humanity...
Ocean currents as a source of energy: the French start-up "Normandie Hydroliennes" (NH) wants to generate energy using the power of the tides. The company is planning to build a field of "underwater wind turbines" on the seabed to convert the power of the ocean's movements into green electricity. Tidal power plant Wind, cooling processes on the surface of the water and the attractive forces of...
The world's first import corridor for liquid hydrogen through the Sultanate of Oman, the Netherlands and Germany has been agreed in a Joint Development Agreement (JDA). This corridor will connect the port of Duqm in Oman with Amsterdam in the Netherlands and important logistics centres in Germany, including Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG...
Stele opened to commemorate a different time The German Navy once again has a place in Kappeln - Olpenitz between the Baltic Sea and the Schlei. In the middle of the harbour, on the large square near a food market on the harbour promenade. A 2 metre high stele now stands there, commemorating the...
After Singapore presented its autonomous MARSEC platform for controlling the waterways off the coast of the city state at the beginning of the year, the island state of Taiwan, which is threatened by mainland China, has now also made its unmanned combat system for the defence of the Taiwan Strait and national waters public. Similar to the system successfully used by Ukraine, the...
Can you imagine going to work every day, on Saturdays and Sundays, seven days a week, for nine years in a row without a break and without pay? It's hard to imagine that this is exactly what happened to Syrian ship engineer Abdul Nasser Saleh against his will. Since 2012, the man had been permanently...
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