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Current: Critical submarine cable infrastructure

What happens if an undersea cable is interrupted? Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the federal and state governments will once again adopt new quarantine rules. This also has an impact on personnel in critical infrastructure. If you look at the list published today by RND, you will find all the buildings, facilities and organisations that are important to our lives. The federal and state governments have defined nine sectors. People concerned about maritime security will find maritime and inland shipping as well as logistics under transport and traffic, but does Berlin have an eye on what can happen at sea? How do you protect this critical underwater cable infrastructure? In March, the Royal Navy...

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Ecuador fights back

Expansion of the Galapagos Islands Marine Protected Area As Alexandra Valencia (Reuters) reports, Ecuador on 14 January created a new marine protected area around its pristine Galapagos Islands, whose rich biodiversity inspired Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, to extend protection for endangered migratory species. The expansion of the protected area by 60,000 square kilometres is the first step in a plan that Ecuador agreed with its immediate neighbours Colombia, Costa Rica and Panama at the UN climate summit in Glasgow last year to create a shared corridor through which species threatened by climate change and industrial fishing can migrate. The existing Galapagos Marine Protected Area, one of the largest...

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Minehunting boat "Bad Bevensen" back in the SNMCMG 1 on 21. 01.22

On Friday, 21 January 2021 at 10 a.m., the minehunting boat "Bad Bevensen" will leave its home port of Kiel. After a break due to the coronavirus, the Kiel-based boat is now heading for Bornholm to join other boats from the NATO Standing Mine Countermeasures Group 1 (SNMCMG 1). All crew members who contracted the coronavirus before Christmas have recovered and can go to sea with their mates as planned. In February, the "Bad Bevensen" will also take part in the so-called HOD operations in the German Bight. HOD stands for Historic Ordnance Disposal and is regularly carried out in the North Sea and Baltic Sea.

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Setback for South African navy

SAN frigates and submarines will not be refitted in the near future The German Navy was once the "Parent Navy" for South Africa. Good Hope, minesweepers, visits ... The four MEKO A-200SAN frigates and the three submarines were built in Germany and are in need of an overhaul. Now the South African Ministry of Finance has declared that there is little room for additional funding for the overhaul of the South African Navy's frigates and submarines. The mid-life upgrades of the South African Navy's frigates and submarines are currently on hold due to a lack of funds. There will be no upgrades to the frigates until at least 2033 and to the submarines until 2035....

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