[et_pb_section][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text] Fleet shrinks to historic low Shortly before the turn of the year, the German Navy shrank by a further five units. Last week, two tankers, two speedboats and a minesweeper were decommissioned. This reduces the number of floating units in the German Navy to 62 - a...
On 11 November, the daily newspaper Die Welt published an interview with Herbert Aly, Managing Director of the long-established Blohm+Voss shipyard, in its local Hamburg section. Some passages caught our attention as they emphasise the changed conditions for German shipbuilding in general: "At the beginning of 2012, the ThyssenKrupp Group sold the traditional Hamburg shipyard Blohm+Voss to...
Last week, the time had come: the "Majestic Maersk", currently the largest container ship in the world, moored at JadeWeserPort for the first time together with the "Eugen Maersk", albeit unscheduled. Nevertheless, operators and politicians are expecting a signal effect, which should emphasise the JadeWeserPort's ability to operate independently of ebb and flow...
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...
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