Stirling Castle, purchased in 2023 for the Royal Fleet Auxiliary Service (RFA), but then decommissioned in 2024 due to a lack of personnel, was taken over by the Royal Navy at the beginning of the year and reactivated in July with a qualified crew under the White Ensign (white naval flag). The ship, which still looked quite civilian, was...
The Republic of Gambia has started to clean up its shipping register and is removing tankers whose registration is deemed illegal from the national flag. According to the US data analysis company Windward, this mainly affects ships that have been registered since 2023 via the internationally oriented but privately managed register. The measure is...
The oil tanker "Eventin", which is lying in the roadstead off the island of Rügen, may still not be sold or used for any other purpose by the German authorities. This was decided by the Federal Fiscal Court based in Munich in December, confirming an earlier decision in favour of the ship's owners. Determination The tanker, which flies the Panamanian flag, had been lost in January 2025 off...
At the beginning of December 2025, the Dutch Financial Intelligence and Investigation Service (FIOD) searched several Damen Shipyards offices and employees' private residences as part of a sanctions investigation. Two directors of the company, aged 39 and 60, were arrested and remanded in custody, as reported by the Dutch television programme Nieuwsuur. The subject of the investigation...
The naval aviators are on the rise: admittedly, it reads like a stereotype. But that's the truth. Following the arrival of the first two Boeing P-8A "Poseidon" and the landing of the very first NH90 "Sea Tiger" in December, the naval aviators in Nordholz are continuing to "swap" the entire "flying fleet". Following the budget committee's decision...
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