After the "FAZ" headlined in June 2023: "thyssenkrupp makes submarine division ready for sale", Oliver Burkhard, head of tkMS, confirmed on Twitter that the first steps towards independence were being taken. This was tkMS' reaction to statements made last week by the head of the Italian shipbuilding group Fincantieri. In a conversation with...
US President Joe Biden has nominated Admiral Lisa Franchetti to succeed Admiral Michael Gilday as Chief of Naval Operations (CNO - Chief of Staff U.S. Navy), who has been in office since August 2019. If the decision is confirmed, she would be the first woman to head a branch of the US military as Commander-in-Chief and also the first female to hold the position of...
According to the Singaporean Ministry of Defence, the Singapore Navy's submarine "Impeccable" arrived at its home base in Changi, Singapore, on Thursday, 20 July. The arrival of the first boat of the Kiel-built Invincible class was duly honoured with a ceremony. She had arrived in Kiel on board the transport vessel "Rolldock Storm" at the beginning of...
The extent to which critical infrastructure has become a pawn in current threats is demonstrated by the dependence of Taiwan's Matsu and Kinmen Islands on intact submarine cables. Although these small island groups lie deep within the Chinese coast, they are part of Taiwan's national territory (as are the Pescadores Islands in the Taiwan Strait). Tangle of cables The dozen small...
In June 2023, EMS Maritime Offshore GmbH (EMO) from Emden christened its latest ship, the WINDEA ONE, as the first parallel hybrid crew transfer vessel (CTV). In future, it will transport personnel and materials from Norden-Norddeich to the Borkum Riffgrund and Gode Wind wind farms (off Norderney). The offshore wind turbines are operated by the Danish company Ørsted,...
The Dutch government has assigned the Ministry of Defence the permanent task of monitoring potential threats in the Dutch part of the North Sea. Adversarial reconnaissance The Dutch government is thus recognising the risk of sabotage against vital maritime infrastructure and gaining a better picture of threats in the North Sea. The mapping of, for example, internet cables,...
From a press release by Rostock Naval Command On Monday, 24 July 2023 at 10 a.m., the F124 class frigate "Hessen" will depart for the Very High Readiness Joint Task Force (VJTF). During its six-month deployment period, the ship will be travelling in the North Sea, Baltic Sea and North Atlantic. It will also serve as the flagship...
The European Union is planning to lay a new 1,100-kilometre data cable in the Black Sea in order to bypass the existing terrestrial connection (fibre optic) to Georgia, which is considered "unsafe" and "unstable" because it runs through Russia. Such a connection was already being considered before Russia's invasion of Ukraine,...
To transport energy from the wind turbine generators (alternating current) via cables under the sea and then on land, offshore wind farms require conversion to direct current at the point of generation - as this is significantly less lossy over long distances. This conversion takes place in very voluminous converters, which are installed near the wind farms via...
The news about refugees being picked up by sea is becoming increasingly spectacular. What was recently "only" an eleven-day journey from Nigeria to La Palma/Tenerife was survived by four stowaways on the rudder blade of a Liberian freighter/tanker after 5,000 nautical miles in mid-July! The as yet unnamed ship had sailed from Lagos/Nigeria at the end of June...
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