The Navy and Marine Corps are planning the joint construction of amphibious units. However, different ideas are jeopardising the success of the project. The US Navy is planning to introduce a new class of light amphibious warship (LAW) for transporting marines to the theatre of operations. A decision regarding the ship design is to be made in...
Dieter Hanel traced the development of the Bundeswehr and navy in Kiel in marineforum 7/8-2022. In the second part, the author takes a look at the maritime industry in the state capital. The rearmament of Germany and the formation of the Bundeswehr in 1955 also marked the beginning of the reconstruction of a German defence industry....
Rarely had a yacht from the Krupp Gemania shipyard in Kiel led such an adventurous life as the luxury yacht ARGOSY. It began as a luxury yacht, spanned four wars and ended as it had begun many years earlier. In 1931, in the midst of the global financial crisis of the 1930s, the Germania shipyard delivered the ARGOSY...
The "Stan Patrol" design developed by the Dutch Damen Shipyard Group has become a bestseller in various versions. Even the Royal now uses a vehicle of this type for test purposes and the Italian financial police (Guardia di Finanza) recently took delivery of one of the 60-metre units. It is to be the type ship of a new "Bandiera" class...
The port company Niedersachsen Ports (NPorts) has awarded the contract for the construction of a second jetty for the handling of liquefied natural gas - LNG handling is to start in Stade in winter 2023/2024 in order to strengthen Germany's security of supply with gas. A new port infrastructure and superstructure must be developed in good time for this. At NPorts...
The Hitzler shipyard in Lauenburg will build the "Ludwig Prandtl II" to replace its namesake. The Helmholtz Centre Hereon in Geesthacht is the client for the 15 million euro new build, which is being financed by the federal government. The new vessel is 29.90 metres long, eight metres wide and only 1.6 metres deep.
According to the Bremen Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics (ISL), 99 per cent of global orders for new merchant ships measured in CGT (Compensated Gross Tons) went to shipyards in Asia in the first six months of the current year. The majority of the approximately 600 newbuilding orders, totalling 21 million CGT,...
China's merchant fleet is not only growing with container ships, but also increasingly in specialised segments. The Chinese company Guangzhou Salvage, for example, has strengthened its fleet with the semi-submersible newbuilding "Hua Rui Long" built by the shipyard China Merchants Heavy Industry (CMHI) in Haimen. Equipped with DP2 technology for dynamic positioning, the 252 metre long semi-submersible...
Following the federal government's refusal to financially support Hamburg's plans for a floating LNG terminal (FSRU), these appear to have been finally abandoned. The reasons given for the decision in the Hanseatic city are that, on the one hand, extensive dredging work would have been necessary at the planned berth in the Moorburg district and, on the other hand, that...
In view of record order backlogs and the container ship deliveries expected between 2023 and 2025, the industry service Alphaliner has warned of possible overcapacity for the first time. For example, the usual peak season for container shipping in the third quarter of each year only had a much weaker impact in 2022, as was the case in the previous year. Alphaliner reports that...
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