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...
After 124 comes 127: In defence against threats from the air, the next generation of frigates is slowly taking shape. After the planned end of service life of the Class 124 frigate in the years 2034 to 2036, the Next Generation Frigate - Air Defence (NGFrig-AD) project, hereinafter referred to as the Class 127 frigate, will...
For years, Finland's shipyards have done very good business building high-quality ships for Russia. This is now coming to an end. Helsinki Shipyard has announced that the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs has refused an export licence for the delivery of a large icebreaker to a Russian customer. It would have been the largest and most powerful icebreaker ever...
Following the commissioning of the 13,300 TEU capacity "Rio de Janeiro Express", the first of the first of six sister ships, and the keel laying of the later "Hamburg Express" with a capacity of 23,000 TEU as the first ship in a series of twelve, the Hamburg-based container liner shipping company Hapag-Lloyd has now presented the trade world with a clearly...
Our Person of the Year has not only become a focal point for the naval aviators. Captain Thorsten Bobzin has left his mark on the naval aviators in difficult times. In mid-November, Rear Admiral Jürgen zur Mühlen, Commander Forces and Head of the Operations Department, took over command of the Naval Aviation Command from Captain zur...
The Hamburg-based shipping company SAL Heavy Lift and its Dutch partner Jumbo Shipping have ordered four heavy-lift vessels of the new "Orca" class from the Chinese Wuhu shipyard and have secured an option to build two more units. The design of this new innovative ship class was developed by SAL Heavy Lift in close co-operation with...
The fact that yacht owners are not only the hunted, as Russia's oligarchs recently had to experience, but are also exposed to criticism of their use of resources despite all the admiration for the floating luxury palaces, has brought the industry onto the scene. And so the globally active shipbuilder Lürssen and its supplier Rolls-Royce have decided in favour of...
Ferdinand Magellan never wanted to circumnavigate the globe and never did. The voyage he began was completed 500 years ago by the Spaniard Juan Sebastián Elcano. Thanks to providence, we reached the bay of San Lucar, and of the sixty men who made up the crew when we reached the Moluccas...
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