At the beginning of December 2025, the Dutch Financial Intelligence and Investigation Service (FIOD) searched several Damen Shipyards offices and employees' private residences as part of a sanctions investigation. Two directors of the company, aged 39 and 60, were arrested and remanded in custody, as reported by the Dutch television programme Nieuwsuur. The subject of the investigation...
The naval aviators are on the rise: admittedly, it reads like a stereotype. But that's the truth. Following the arrival of the first two Boeing P-8A "Poseidon" and the landing of the very first NH90 "Sea Tiger" in December, the naval aviators in Nordholz are continuing to "swap" the entire "flying fleet". Following the budget committee's decision...
On 14 January 2026, "Henryk Zygalski", the second SIGINT reconnaissance ship for the Polish Navy, was launched in Gdańsk in the presence of Deputy Minister of Defence Paweł Bejda. The ship was named after a Polish mathematician and cryptologist who helped decipher the German Enigma code in the 1930s. The main contractor for...
A Dutch motor cargo ship was damaged by an ice floe on the Mittelland Canal near Bülstringen in Saxony-Anhalt on 12 January. According to the waterway police, the skipper was just about to dock when the alarm was suddenly triggered in the engine room and water entered the ship. The ingressing water was initially able to be pumped out by the ship's own...
Vilnius - Following cable damage in the Baltic Sea in early January, investigating authorities have searched a ship in connection with the incident, according to the Latvian Border Guard Police. According to the Lithuanian National Crisis Management Centre, the affected telecommunications cable connects the resort town of Sventoji in Lithuania with the Latvian port city of Liepaja - two coastal towns above Klaipeda...
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