Something is slowly happening in the maritime sector! On 9 November, the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi) announced that the Bundestag had decided "...to increase funding for the promotion of innovation in German shipbuilding by one million euros. This means that the federal government will provide a total of 13 million euros in 2013 as part of the...
The MS&D 2012 - international conference on maritime security and defence - took place in Hamburg on 4 and 5 September as part of the 25th SMM, shipbuilding, machinery & marine technology, international trade fair. Here is the final report on MS&D 2012 from the perspective of Messe Hamburg and DMI: "The integration...
Actually, you have to be grateful for this farce: The dispute over the planned reflagging of the cruise ship "Deutschland", which became known as the "Traumschiff", is escalating. [...] The captain and large parts of the crew are against the fact that the Malta flag is soon to fly on the last cruise ship under the German flag according to "Bild"....
Pooling and sharing is the new buzzword when talking about Europe, security and the budget. It should be clear to everyone involved that there will be no more "business as usual" in the sense of sole national provision in the future. It is worth taking a look at the bigger picture, because there are...
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