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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German Naval Yards in Kiel and the Cuxhaven-based start-up Leviathan have signed a letter of intent to establish a "powerhouse" for environmentally friendly ship recycling. The aim is to join forces in order to become the "engine of green ship recycling in Europe." The pioneering technology developed by Leviathan can now be used by shipping companies for...
The 5000-tonne heavy-duty crane built by crane manufacturer Liebherr in Rostock and mounted on the special vessel "Orion" has proved its worth for the first time during the installation of the largest monopiles ever produced in Europe at the German wind farm Arcadis Ost 1 and the lifting of a transformer platform at the French wind farm Fécamp. The "Orion" was first used at the wind farm...
Cosco Shipping, the shipping arm of China's largest maritime conglomerate and currently number four among the world's largest container liner shipping companies, is clearly aiming for the top. According to Chinese statements, the company aims to become the world's largest container shipping company. A newbuilding programme worth 4.9 billion dollars is planned for 32 ships of different size classes...
In the search for alternatives to merchant ship orders, which are almost impossible to acquire, and the lack of orders for government and naval vessels, some German shipyards have created another mainstay for themselves by building yachts and, where possible, mega-yachts. Here are two examples: Meyer Werft, for example, had as...
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