In April, units from the Royal Netherlands Sea Rescue Organisation (KNRM) were called out for a medical evacuation. Two crew members on board the "Glomar Venture" (built in 1990, Panama flag) had been injured while travelling on the North Sea. It was later reported in the Dutch media that the ship had collided with a wind turbine. A...
Major maritime manoeuvre BALTOPS starts for the first time in Rostock Baltic Operations, or BALTOPS for short, has been around for decades. It is NATO's most important US-led naval manoeuvre in the Baltic Sea. The multinational exercise usually lasts two weeks and ends in Kiel at the start of Kiel Week. Rather unnoticed for years, the...
According to a US Department of Defense announcement dated 30 May 2025, Raytheon Missiles and Defense has been awarded an initial $536.75 million contract (N00024-25-C-5501) for integration and production support services for the AN/SPY-6(V) multifunction wide-area radar. The announcement states that if all options are exercised, the cumulative value of the contract will exceed $2.88 billion.
The Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group One (NATO abbreviation SNMCMG1) will be visiting Lübeck from Friday, 30 May to Monday, 2 June 2025 The group will be exercising in the Baltic Sea with a combination of mine countermeasures and patrols. It is intended to strengthen the security of the Critical Underwater Infrastructure (CUI). Previously...
The small container ship "MSC Elsa 3" (built in 1997, flagged Liberia) capsized and sank off the Indian coast on Sunday for reasons that have not yet been clarified. The crew was rescued after a distress signal was sent out by the Indian Coast Guard and the Indian Navy, reported the Ministry of Defence in New Delhi. The feeder freighter came...
The Geneva, Switzerland-based Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) is not only the largest shipping company, but is also the first to reach a fleet of over 900 ships. This milestone was reached with the delivery of the container ship MSC GERMANY (Neopanamax, 16,000 TEU). This was reported by the French analysis company Alphaliner....
A few hundred metres past each other When the Russian corvette RFS "Stoikiy" (Steregushchiy class) "turned" into the Langelandbelt on Friday last week (we reported) after passing Fehmarn to the north-west, the French reconnaissance ship FS "Dupuy de Lome" (A 759), which was on the opposite course, had a convenient "found food" ....
Hapag-Lloyd customers have cancelled 30 per cent of shipments from China to the US because they were spooked by the trade conflict between the world's two largest economies, a spokesman for the German container shipping group said. Instead, there has been a "massive increase" in demand for products and shipments from Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam,...
The PMA (Panama Maritime Authority) recovers USD 8.5 MILLION in wages for cheated seafarers It is a sad reality that seafarers in international shipping are often cheated and not paid their wages. But there are also positive developments: The Panama Maritime Authority (PMA) has intensified its cooperation with the...
Problem: Recruiting young talent for maritime professions More than 80 school students came to Hamburg in the first week of May to find out about training opportunities and career paths in the maritime industry. Companies and organisations from the industry had invited students to the "Course for the future - your opportunities in the maritime world" event - and...
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