At the beginning of June, the first F-35B Lightning Joint Strike Fighter landed on the Prince Of Wales, the second Queen Elizabeth-class carrier. Even though the pilot had a deck the size of three football pitches on 65,000 tonnes of steel at his disposal, this moment was still a special one for the...
Despite the days-long closure at the end of March due to the accident involving the large container ship EVER GIVEN (20,124 TEU), Egypt achieved record revenues with the Suez Canal in the first half of 2021. According to the canal authority SCA, more than 9,700 ships travelled through the waterway in the first six months, around 200 more than...
Due to the rise in steel prices, more and more ships are being given up for demolition worldwide. Over the course of a year, the prices for light displacement tonnes (ldt), i.e. empty ships without supplies, fuel, etc., have almost doubled. Pakistani demolishers are said to have paid 580 dollars per container ship ldt. It is expected that the previous...
The keel of the first large LNG tanker of a 15-series for the Russian state shipping company Sovkomflot has been laid at the Zvezda shipyard in Bolshoi Kamen in the Far East, after the first steel cut was made in November 2020. It is "the first ship of this size, loading and icebreaking capacity" to be built at a Russian shipyard,...
The Stralsund shipyard of the pandemic-ridden MV Werften group has delivered the CRYSTAL ENDEAVOUR, the first of originally three expedition cruise ships, to Crystal Expedition Cruises from Los Angeles. The ship has a long construction period behind it, which not only reflects the development of MV Werften GmbH, but also of the German shipbuilding industry. Planned...
On 25 June, Dutch Admiral Rob Bauer took over as Chairman of the NATO Military Committee from British Air Chief Marshal Sir Stuart Peach. This means that a naval officer is once again at the head of the military part of the alliance and the Secretary General as the highest representative and spokesman of the Military Committee...
The first Class 125 frigate was commissioned just over two years ago. Time for a review of experience. How are our "new" frigates faring? Several members of the Bundestag have recently been asking this question. With their small question on the status of the Frigate 125 (F 125) project, they emphasised the role of the project...
In the first days of June, Iran's largest unit to date, the Kharg, sank not far from the Iranian port of Jask at the exit of the Strait of Hormuz after a fire in the engine room spread on board and sent a signal that could be seen for miles. The ship had to be abandoned after twenty hours of unsuccessful firefighting. It was...
The DEU MARFOR command centre from the perspective of a young troop officer In a tectonically turbulent zone on the Italian coast, there is not only Mount Vesuvius, one of the most dangerous and notorious volcanoes on earth, but also an equally imposing NATO building. With its six storeys and endlessly long corridors, the...
Vice Admiral Kay-Achim Schönbach has been inspector of the navy for six months now. marineforum had the opportunity to ask him about his impressions so far and his plans for the future of the navy. Admiral Schönbach, congratulations on your new position! Inspectors often stood for events in the mirror of time: Zenker stands for development,...
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