Brunsbüttel water pollution: 2,200 m³ of untreated ballast water discharged...
VSM calls for European Maritime Industrial Strategy: Shipbuilding in geopolitical competition. Read more in the VSM press release by Managing Director Dr Reinhard Lüken...
Peene-Werft Wolgast was awarded the Innovation and Technology Prize 2025 by the Fraunhofer Institute for Large Structures in Production Engineering (IGP) on 26 February....
Rheinmetall announces the complete takeover of Naval Vessels Lürssen (NVL), the military division of the Lürssen Group, on 2 March....
Iranian Navy and Strait of Hormuz: The attack on Iran has some maritime aspects that the marineforum team is trying to address....
The Schwarz Group invests over 520 million euros in five of its own container ships. Tailwind strengthens supply chains and maritime independence....
Closure of the Strait of Hormuz: escalation in the Iran crisis jeopardises shipping Now after all: a massive military strike by the US and Israeli armed forces. They are going "all in" ....

For some years now, the Iranian naval forces have had a number of unusual units at their disposal. The converted merchant ships are intended for the use of drones. For over ten years, rumours have been circulating on social media that Iran was planning to acquire its own aircraft carriers. At the beginning of 2014, these rumours seemed to become reality when satellite images...

With „Arctic Sentry“, NATO is shifting the security of the Arctic and the High North up a gear on 11 February 2026. Under the leadership of Joint Force Command Norfolk in Virginia, the operation, designated as a multi-domain activity, is intended to operationally consolidate the growing individual measures of the allies in the region -...
US President announces deployment of the USNS „Mercy“ to Greenland. Ice, draught and infrastructure make deployment virtually impossible....
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