Category: Technology

Marispace-X at the National Maritime Conference

Marispace-X presented the key to the Blue Data Economy - from digital situational awareness to digital business models The Kiel-based software developer north.io, together with consortium partner Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel and the Gaia-X Hub Germany, presented the Marispace-X project funded by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection (BMWK) at this year's Jann Wendt, Managing Director of north.io and coordinator of Marispace-X, was delighted because, according to Wendt, Marispace-X's participation in this prestigious conference underlines the importance of the largest industry-driven maritime digitalisation project for the development of the maritime data economy of the future. In addition, Wendt emphasises that the secure and sovereign exchange of maritime data is the...

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Future in Kiel: New tkMS shipbuilding hall

The thyssenkrupp Marine Systems (tkMS) shipyard wants to be able to build submarines faster and more efficiently in its new hall. The next submarines for Germany and Norway (class U 212 CD) are the most technically advanced of their kind and will now also be built in the most modern halls, CEO Oliver Burkhard told the German Press Agency. It is the most modern shipbuilding hall for conventional submarines in the world. New technology With its dimensions of 170 by 70 metres and a height of just under 33 metres, the recently handed over hall complex already dominates the cityscape on the eastern shore of Kiel's inner fjord. A major advantage of the huge building is that...

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Marine Competence Centre in Kiel

Rüstungs- und Elektronikkonzern Rohde und Schwarz eröffnet eine Niederlassung in Kiel Am 30. August 2023 wurde im Wissenschaftspark Kiel mit Gästen aus Politik, Bundeswehr und Wirtschaft ein neuer Unternehmensstandort feierlich eröffnet. Von Kiel aus sollen nationale und internationale Marineprojekte betreut werden. Um die traditionell enge Zusammenarbeit mit der Deutschen Marine auszubauen, hat Rohde & Schwarz in den Standort Kiel investiert und neue Räumlichkeiten bezogen. Gemeinsam mit Gästen, darunter Daniel Günther - Ministerpräsident des Landes Schleswig-Holstein, Dr. Johann Wadephul - stellvertretender Vorsitzender der CDU/CSU Bundestagsfraktion, Dr. Ulf Kämpfer - Oberbürgermeister der Landeshauptstadt Kiel und Konteradmiral Christoph Müller-Meinhard - Kommandeur Unterstützung...

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GNY: Kiel shipyard wants to build disposal platform for the Baltic Sea

The Kiel-based shipyard German Naval Yards, together with Rheinmetall Project Solutions GmbH (Düsseldorf) and another partner from the offshore sector, is bidding for the construction of a platform for the disposal of munitions from the Baltic Sea. The jointly developed platform could be deployed as a pilot plant in the Kolberger Heide munitions dumping area at the entrance to the Kiel Fjord before mid-2024 and dispose of conventional munitions such as torpedo heads, mines and artillery shells in an environmentally friendly manner. According to the latest estimates, 1.6 million tonnes of conventional and 220,000 tonnes of chemical warfare agents lie on the seabed off the German North Sea and Baltic coasts. Because these were disposed of during and especially after the Second World War...

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Baltic Sea: Lubmin and Mukran to receive gas pipeline

The German transmission system operator GASCADE Gastransport GmbH from Kassel has commissioned the Italian company SAIPEM, based in Milan, to lay the pipeline for a connecting pipeline in the Pomeranian Bay (Baltic Sea). Access marineforum digital+ Are you already a registered user? Log in here now - also MOV members: Username Password Remember meLost your password? Don't have access yet? Click here for the marineforum digital+ subscription: Access to all articles from the marineforum magazine Easy payment via PayPal, direct debit or credit card The subscription can be cancelled at any time free of charge For MOV members free of charge To the subscription options...

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