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Royal Navy - Carrier Strike Group 21 visits Japan

Royal Navy - Carrier Strike Group 21 visits Japan

Gepostet von | 17 Sep 2021 | , , | 0

After visiting the new aircraft carrier and flagship HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH in Yokosuka, Japan, the British Carrier Strike Group 21 (CSG21) of the Royal Navy has passed the zenith of its strategically assessed 26,000-mile journey halfway around the globe. As Japan intends to upgrade its two helicopter carriers to aircraft carriers in the future with the Joint Strike Fighter F-35B (JSF, STOVL short-takeoff and vertical landing), a high-ranking delegation led by the Minister of Defence paid the guest from England a thoroughly interested visit. On its way to Tokyo Bay, the unit had previously travelled through the South China Sea as part of a multinational FONOPS (Freedom of Navigation Operation)...

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Great Britain - F-35B Lightning

Great Britain - F-35B Lightning

Gepostet von | 16 Sep 2021 | , , | 0

In early June, the first F-35B Lightning Joint Strike Fighter landed on the Prince Of Wales, the second Queen Elizabeth-class carrier. Even though the pilot had a deck the size of three football pitches on 65,000 tonnes of steel at his disposal, this moment was a special one for the resurgence of the Royal Navy's traditional carrier groups in their fifth generation, as Defence Secretary Ben Wallace commented. With their short take-off and vertical landing capabilities, up to 36 of the F-35Bs flown jointly by the Navy and Air Force can be taken on board. And the Army is also allowed to play along, if it chooses to fly alongside...

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Suez Canal - Surprising additional revenue

Suez Canal - Surprising additional revenue

Gepostet von | 14 Sep 2021 | , | 0

Despite the days-long closure at the end of March due to the accident involving the large container ship EVER GIVEN (20,124 TEU), Egypt achieved record revenues with the Suez Canal in the first half of 2021. According to the canal authority SCA, more than 9,700 ships travelled through the waterway in the first six months, around 200 more than in the same period last year. The fees collected for this amounted to around three billion dollars, an increase of 8.6 per cent. In the 2020/2021 financial year as a whole, which ended on 30 June, around 19,000 ships generated revenue of USD 5.84 billion. The EVER GIVEN has now returned to service after more than 100 days of...

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Ship scrapping on the rise  

Ship scrapping on the rise  

Gepostet von | 14 Sep 2021 | , | 0

Due to the rise in steel prices, more and more ships are being given up for demolition worldwide. Over the course of a year, the price of light displacement tonnes (ldt), i.e. empty ships without supplies, fuel, etc., has almost doubled. Pakistani demolishers are said to have paid 580 dollars per container ship ldt. The previous high of 600 dollars per ldt is expected to be broken very soon. According to Lloyd's List Intelligence, 134 ships with a deadweight tonnage of over 10,000 tdw went to demolishers in the first half of 2021, primarily in Southeast Asia. This is 15 per cent more than in the first six months of the previous year. To the subscriptions...

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Zvezda shipyard - launch of LNG tanker series

Zvezda shipyard - launch of LNG tanker series

Gepostet von | 14 Sep 2021 | , , , | 0

The keel of the first large LNG tanker of a 15-ship series for the Russian state shipping company Sovkomflot has been laid at the Zvezda shipyard in Bolshoi Kamen in the Far East, after the first steel cut was made in November 2020. It is "the first ship of this size, loading and icebreaking capacity" to be built at a Russian shipyard, according to the keel-laying ceremony. The newbuildings are intended for transporting natural gas from the Arctic LNG 2 project on the Gydan Peninsula. The first tanker of this Arc7 series will go directly to Sovkomflot, while the other 14 will be owned by Smart LNG, a joint venture between Sovkomflot and the Russian Novatec Group,...

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