Spain's government has given the green light for the stationing of two more US Navy ships, bringing the number of US destroyers stationed in Rota to six. In 2014, the USA began stationing a total of four Arleigh Burke-class destroyers (DDG 51-119, max. 9700 tonnes displacement) permanently in Europe. The order for these...
Dear readers and friends of maritime topics! Since we launched the portal of the Marine-Offizier-Vereinigung e.V. (MOV) and the Deutsches Maritimes Institut e.V. together with ElbBureaux GmbH in Hamburg almost exactly three years ago (a good 1,000 days), we have succeeded in publishing over two thousand (2,000!) articles - short...
London: Norway and the UK announce maritime alliance to provide sustainable support to Ukraine in building coastal and maritime defence The Norwegian Minister of Defence met his British counterpart on 11 December 2023 to jointly present the Maritime Capability Coalition (MCC). The aim is to put Ukraine in a position to be able to provide...
Six Northern European countries (Denmark, Germany, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden) are intensifying their cooperation in the field of maritime infrastructure. One part of this is the Seabed Security Experimentation Centre (SeaSEC), which has just been inaugurated in The Hague. The establishment of the SeaSEC is part of the Northern Naval Capability Cooperation (NNCC), which was...
With the HNLMS "Holland", the Dutch government has deployed the type ship of the four 108 metre long and, at approx. 3,800 tonnes, frigate-sized ocean patrol vessels (OPV) of the same class to the Eastern Mediterranean. This means that the Netherlands, together with allies such as the USA, Great Britain, France, Italy and the United Kingdom, is now also contributing to...
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German Maritime Institute takes over MS&D for SMM 2024 The International Conference on Maritime Security and Defence (MS&D) is a specialist conference on maritime security that takes place every two years as part of the SMM (Shipbuilding, Machinery & Marine Technology) trade fair at the Hamburg Messe exhibition centre. The SMM has been...
The Inspector General of the Navy, Vice Admiral Jan Christian Kaack, presented the annual report of the Naval Command at the Maritime Convention in Berlin on 21 November 2023. He stated: "The Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, which has continued with unchanged intensity since February last year, clearly demonstrates not only the...
In a joint press release from the Federal Foreign Office and the Federal Ministry of Defence, the Federal Government announced its decision to reduce the forces of the task force for a military evacuation operation. For this reason, the departure of the task force provider "Bonn" planned for 23 November is not necessary. A possible evacuation of German citizens via a military...
Friedrich Lürssen, shareholder of the Lürssen Group, stepped down from the board of the Federal Association of the Security and Defence Industry (BDSV) after fourteen years of service. Tim Wagner, CEO of the NVL Group, took over as treasurer during a general meeting on 16 November 2023. The Bremen shipyard manager was President of the BDSV until 2012, which...
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