The staff expansion at the TKMS site in Wismar is progressing according to plan. On 5 January 2026, more than 140 new employees took up their posts. This means that TKMS now employs over 400 people in Wismar and is thus consistently continuing the expansion of the site. In the coming years, the shipyard will...
Meyer Werft is internationally known primarily for building large cruise ships. With the undocking of a fuel transporter for the German Navy, it is now deliberately entering a less familiar but strategically important field. The supply ship is part of a contract awarded in 2021 during the coronavirus pandemic, which aimed to utilise free capacity in the...
On 21 December 2025, the US government announced the introduction of a new class of large surface combatants in a press release on navy.mil: the "Trump Class". One day later, in a speech at Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump presented the battleship "USS Defiant" (BBG-1) as the type ship of a series of 10-25 units and the centrepiece of a new...
Behind a sober announcement from Damen on 9 December 2025 lies a small sensation. The Dutch shipbuilder reports that NAVSEA - the Naval Sea Systems Command responsible for the design, procurement and material responsibility of US combat and support ships - has used its LST-100 design as the basis for the US Navy-led programme to...
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