The staff expansion at the TKMS site in Wismar is progressing according to plan. On 5 January 2026, more than 140 new employees took up their posts. This means that TKMS now employs over 400 people in Wismar and is thus consistently continuing the expansion of the site. In the coming years, the shipyard will...
Meyer Werft is internationally known primarily for building large cruise ships. With the undocking of a fuel transporter for the German Navy, it is now deliberately entering a less familiar but strategically important field. The supply ship is part of a contract awarded in 2021 during the coronavirus pandemic, which aimed to utilise free capacity in the...
For the first time in 25 years, the US Coast Guard has put a new icebreaker into service. The ship is urgently needed to monitor the Arctic sea areas. The US Coast Guard ceremonially commissioned the new icebreaker Storis on 10 August. The ceremony took place in Juneau, the ship's future home port...
Germany's maritime dependence. The deputy inspector and commander of the fleet did not hand over a printed report to the German Maritime Institute at the end of the Maritime Convention, but a 5 x 5 centimetre QR code. That is modern, but not yet progress. The Department of Naval Shipping Management under the leadership of Frigate Captain Steffen...
On 20 November, the British Ministry of Defence announced a contract worth GBP 316 million (around EUR 359 million) with MBDA UK. The contract is for the delivery of the DragonFire laser weapon system, which is to be installed on Royal Navy ships in the future. The first actual installation in the fleet is planned from 2027 - initially on a...
The Maritime Convention is one of the most important meetings of the maritime security community. This year, it also made a shore leave. On 11 November, the annual conference of maritime experts traditionally took place at the Representation of the State of Schleswig-Holstein to the Federal Government in the Ministerial Gardens in Berlin. The German Maritime Institute and Griephan...
In mid-June, the time had finally come: the first National Veterans Day in Germany was celebrated. This was preceded by years of hard work to make "the politicians" realise why we need such a day. Since 2010, there has been a struggle, especially over who is a veteran. The term was defined in 2018 by the then Federal Minister of Defence,...
On 21 December 2025, the US government announced the introduction of a new class of large surface combatants in a press release on navy.mil: the "Trump Class". One day later, in a speech at Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump presented the battleship "USS Defiant" (BBG-1) as the type ship of a series of 10-25 units and the centrepiece of a new...
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