On 14 April, the USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) was decommissioned by the Navy in a ceremony. The amphibious landing ship had been severely damaged in a fire last year. An explosion occurred on board during a harbour layover at the San Diego naval base, and the ensuing fire...
Change of command of the crew F125 "Charlie". On Thursday, 15 April 2021 at 10 a.m., the change of command of the F125 crew "Charlie" took place on the frigate "Nordrhein-Westfalen". The commander of the 4th frigate squadron, Kapitän zur See Dirk Jacobus (51), has taken command from...
The Argentine Navy has taken delivery of the second Offshore Patrol Vessel built by Naval Group. At the same time, the representative of the Argentine Navy, Captain Victor Ortiz, handed over command of the ARA Piedrabuena to Commander Gaston Vega. In 2018, the two partners signed the contract for the delivery of a total of...
While parts of the German economy will probably have to undergo an even stricter lockdown, imports and exports are booming. Container transport on the route from South East Asia to Europe is in particularly high demand. As a result, the ships deployed here are almost fully booked and freight rates for containers have in some cases...
Damen Shiprepair returned the frigate Evertsen to the Dutch Navy this week. Over the past six weeks, the ship, which was commissioned in 2005, has been repaired at the Amsterdam shipyard and prepared for its next assignment. As part of the British Carrier Strike Group centred around Queen Elizabeth, the...
Around 1,200 vehicles and containers as well as 54 helicopters from a brigade of the 101st Airborne Division are on their way to their home base in Kentucky. They are on board a ship that left the port of Rotterdam a few days ago. As mfo has already reported, the Dutch military supported the transport as part of...
Waste as an opportunity for shipping Doesn't this sound familiar? Years ago, diesel drivers also tipped cooking oil from discounters into their tanks. Now a shipping company is doing it. United European Car Carriers (UECC) has already attracted attention several times with its sustainable solutions. Now the winner of the Greenport...
Minehunting boat "Datteln" returns to its home port of Kiel after three months of NATO deployment. The boat was part of one of NATO's two permanent mine countermeasures units, the "Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group 1", or SNMCMG 1 for short. The crew will hand over the baton to the sister boat "Sulzbach-Rosenberg", which will return one day later, on Thursday,...
After a two-week voyage, the USS Arleigh Burke arrived in her new home port of Rota on 11 April. At the end of March, she left her previous home in Norfolk for the last time for the next few years. On the way to Europe, the destroyer took part in a number of sub-hunting manoeuvres with its sister ship USS...
France can once again report a success in the fight against drug smuggling at sea. The frigate Guépratte stopped and searched a suspicious dhow in the Gulf of Oman. The boarding team quickly found suspicious packages, the contents of which turned out to be drugs. The soldiers were able to seize a total of 650 kilos of methamphetamine and 75 kilos of heroin...
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