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Relocation of US troops via Rotterdam completed

Relocation of US troops via Rotterdam completed

Posted by | 14 Apr 2021 | , | 0

Around 1,200 vehicles and containers as well as 54 helicopters from a brigade of the 101st Airborne Division are on their way to their home base in Kentucky. They are on board a ship that left the port of Rotterdam a few days ago. As mfo already reported, the Dutch military supported the transport as part of Host Nation Support. With success, as the operation was carried out quickly and without any major problems. The US unit is returning after nine months in Eastern Europe. There, it was part of the troop reinforcement that the United States deployed in response to Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014.

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Seafaring with chip fat

Seafaring with chip fat

Posted by | 14 Apr 2021 | , , | 0

In March last year, UECC launched the trial with MS Autosky, a 20-year-old car transporter with a capacity of around 2,000 vehicles travelling on European routes. Over the course of the one-year pilot project, the ship consumed around 6,000 tonnes of biofuel, significantly reducing CO2 emissions. In addition, 9,000 kilograms less sulphur oxide and hardly any particulate matter are said to have been produced. Overall, CO2 per tonne kilometre was reduced by 60 %, far beyond the reduction of 40 % targeted by the IMO in 2030.

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Kieler Minenjagdboote lösen sich im NATO-Einsatzverband ab

Kieler Minenjagdboote lösen sich im NATO-Einsatzverband ab

Posted by | 14 Apr 2021 | , | 0

Minenjagdboot „Datteln“ kehrt nach drei Monaten NATO-Einsatz wieder seinen Heimathafen Kiel zurück. Das Boot war Teil eines der beiden ständigen Minenabwehrverbände der NATO, der „Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group 1“, kurz SNMCMG 1. Die Besatzung wird den Staffelstab an das Schwesterboot „Sulzbach-Rosenberg“ übergeben, das einen Tag später, am Donnerstag, den 15. April 2021 Kiel verlassen und sich als neuer deutscher Beitrag wieder dem NATO-Verband anschließen wird. Für die 42 Männer und Frauen der Besatzung der „Datteln“, darunter ein Soldat der US-Navy, war der zurückliegende Einsatz anstrengend, aber sehr erfolgreich. Unter der Führung von Korvettenkapitän Tanja Merkl (35) nahm die...

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Rotation in Rota

Rotation in Rota

Posted by | 14 Apr 2021 | , , , | 0

After a two-week voyage, the USS Arleigh Burke arrived in her new home port of Rota on 11 April. At the end of March, she left her previous home in Norfolk for the last time for the next few years. On her way to Europe, the destroyer took part in a number of sub-hunting manoeuvres with her sister ship USS Roosevelt, the attack submarine USS Vermont and a P-8A. The Arleigh Burke is now an important part of the US European Phased Adaptive Approach (EPAA) and thus serves to protect Europe from ballistic missiles of all ranges. It is also intended to ensure freedom of navigation in the waters around Europe and...

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Drugs found at sea

Drugs found at sea

Posted by | 13 Apr 2021 | , , , | 0

France can once again report a success in the fight against drug smuggling at sea. The frigate Guépratte stopped and searched a suspicious dhow in the Gulf of Oman. The boarding team quickly found suspicious packages, the contents of which turned out to be drugs. The soldiers were able to confiscate a total of 650 kilos of methamphetamine and 75 kilos of heroin and bring them on board the frigate. The Guépratte is actually part of Operation Agénor. However, flexibility was shown for the search and the ship was transferred under the command of Combined Task Force 150, whose mission is to observe, board, inspect and stop suspicious ships in global combat...

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