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Diesel expensive: shipping will be hit hard

Diesel expensive: shipping will be hit hard

Gepostet von | 25 Feb 2022 | , , | 0

Price increase of up to 23% It's not just at the petrol station and gas heating that we feel it: rising fuel and energy prices are having an impact everywhere. This will affect all import and export goods, but also every passenger. There have already been fuel surcharges for cruises before. Marine diesel is based on the same raw materials as diesel and petrol for cars. As high profits can currently be made from this, the supply for shipping is becoming scarcer, Bloomberg reported yesterday. As fuel is the biggest cost factor in shipping, any price increase will put pressure on already strained global supply chains. The cost of marine fuel in Rotterdam...

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Once again: the 500-ship navy

Once again: the 500-ship navy

Gepostet von | 24 Feb 2022 | , , , | 0

CNO Gilday: We need a 500+ ship Navy The Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), Admiral Michael Gilday, said in San Diego, California at the WEST 2022 conference, co-hosted by AFCEA and the U.S. Naval Institute, that the U.S. Navy would need a fleet of more than 500 ships to meet its obligations under the soon-to-be-released National Defence Strategy. "We need 12 aircraft carriers. We need a strong amphibious force with nine large amphibious ships and another 19 or 20 LPDs to support them. Perhaps 30 or more smaller amphibious ships to support the maritime littoral regiments ......

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Vice Admiral Jan C. Kaack becomes Inspector of the Navy

Vice Admiral Jan C. Kaack becomes Inspector of the Navy

Gepostet von | 24 Feb 2022 | , , | 0

It was obviously not easy for the management at the BMVg to make a quick decision. The few options for the succession decision were available very early on. Now we know and are happy for him. Jan C. Kaack, who was promoted to Vice Admiral yesterday, is to become the new Inspector of the Navy. He had already been in temporary charge of the navy after his predecessor Schönbach offered his resignation following controversial political statements. Vice Admiral Kaack is taking over the post at a challenging time, but with a navy that can provide NATO with "highly trained ships and highly motivated crews", as he said a few days ago in the...

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Russian submarine exercise in the Mediterranean

Russian submarine exercise in the Mediterranean

Gepostet von | 23 Feb 2022 | , , , | 1

On 21 February, the Russian media announced that a submarine hunting manoeuvre would take place in the eastern Mediterranean from 15 to 25 February 2022. One Slava-class cruiser (Marshal Ustinov, Varyag) and one Udaloy-class submarine frigate (Vitseadmiral Kulakov, Admiral Tributs) from the Northern and Pacific Fleet and the Gorshkov-class frigate Admiral Kasatonov (NF) have joined the frigate Admiral Grigorovich, which has transferred from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean. The two ships of the Pacific Fleet had already been in the Gulf region since the beginning of the year. The units of the Northern Fleet moved past Ireland into the Mediterranean at the beginning of February....

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Israel and its neighbours

Israel and its neighbours

Gepostet von | 22 Feb 2022 | , , , | 0

It was not only Iran's threatening activities in the Middle East, but also Moscow's internationally unsettling pressure on NATO and its military harassment of Ukraine that finally brought together what had long seemed impossible: in mid-February, Israel's navy took part in a joint naval manoeuvre with the navies of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan for the first time. IMX22 (International Maritime Exercise, bi-annual, since 2012), probably the most extensive exercise ever organised by US Central Command and its 5th Fleet in the Middle East region, provided the opportunity for this. A good dozen navies participated with military units, including Gulf neighbours that were not previously on Israel's primary partner list. Observers and co-operation partners were...

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