On Sunday, 13 August 2023 at 1 pm, the corvette "Oldenburg" will leave her home port of Warnemünde as part of the Hanse Sail to take part in the mandated foreign mission UNIFIL (United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon) off the Lebanese coast as well as in the NATO support mission Aegean. Under the command of Corvette Captain...
On 8 August 2023, the keel laying ceremony for the first of two new naval supply vessels (MBV) took place at the Neptun Werft shipyard in Rostock, which is part of the Meyer Group. Both ships are being built under the leadership of the NVL Group in co-operation with the Meyer Group. With the participation of the Parliamentary State Secretary in the BMVg, Siemtje Möller, the...
Marine Alutech puts its products in the right light with Finnish lightness. The shipyard's products are used by authorities in many countries around the world. When you are invited to Finland in May to have maritime technology presented to you, as editor-in-chief of marineforum you are naturally immediately electrified: Who...
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In July, the Bulgarian ruling parties passed a law withdrawing Lukoil's licence to ship Russian oil from Burgas on the Black Sea for further processing. Bulgaria hopes that this will enable it to join the Schengen area for free and safe travel in Europe as early as the autumn. Economic policy The oil harbour...
Abeking & Rasmussen delivers after just three years In 2020, the Indonesian Navy signed a contract for the construction of two minehunting vessels. The three units have now been delivered on time. The "KRI Pulau Fani - 731" and the "KRI Pulau Fanildo - 732" (construction numbers 6508 and 6509) are currently being...
The state development bank KfW (Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau) is authorised to provide financial support to the German energy company RWE and the Dutch energy network operator Gasunie. Energy security The landing point for liquefied natural gas will improve the supply and gas infrastructure in Germany and thus also contribute to the EU's energy security. The measure that has now been approved contains sufficient precautions to prevent any distortions of competition...
The Stuka fighter-bomber is one of the best-known aircraft of the Second World War. A well-preserved specimen was found in the Mediterranean a few years ago - and has still not been recovered. Countless objects of military-historical significance lie at the bottom of the seas. Every single object is something special that needs to be discovered and deciphered...
In April 2023, the presidents of South Korea and the United States agreed that a US Navy submarine equipped with nuclear weapons would visit South Korea again. This is part of a bilateral agreement on improving the "regular visibility" of US strategic assets on the Korean peninsula and a response to repeated threats and the ongoing nuclear proliferation in the...
From a report on the Bundeswehr portal The German Navy's naval battalion is also involved in the large-scale multinational manoeuvre "Talisman Sabre" from 22 July to 4 August. Australia has hosted this largest joint training activity of its defence forces with the US military every two years since 2005. Talisman Sabre 2023 is now the tenth and...
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