The forward section was moved from Wolgast to Kiel at the weekend by the NVL Peene shipyard using three tugs. The plan is to move it to Bremen, where it will be connected to the aft section. The future first ship will then be completed at NVL / Blohm & Voss in Hamburg....
The MMPV project with two state-of-the-art corvettes is currently the largest newbuilding project of the Bulgarian Navy. Both ships are being built at MTG Dolphin in Varna under the management of NVL and with the participation of numerous international and Bulgarian suppliers....
The Fassmer Group expands its production capacities and establishes a new site in Stralsund....
The second of six planned submarines was ceremoniously handed over to the Turkish Navy in Turkey...

Parliamentary pressure increases - Budget Committee creates room for manoeuvre: Bundestag prepares a possible F126 alternative solution with 7.8 billion. MEKO A-200 as a bridge to the delayed Lower Saxony class? The Budget Committee of the German Bundestag has made a far-reaching decision in its review meeting on the 2026 federal budget: The Federal Ministry of Defence can expect around 7.8...

Well ahead of schedule The keel of the second of three new Class 424 fleet service boats was laid today at the NVL site in Wolgast, several months ahead of schedule. The traditional keel laying ceremony took place in the presence of State Secretary Jochen Schulte, Ministry of Economics, Infrastructure, Tourism and Labour of the State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Flotilla Admiral Andreas Czerwinski,...

South Korea is taking a highly visible step towards achieving a leading position in the race for the Philippine Navy's first submarine programme. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. officially met with Hanwha Ocean on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Seoul. The government in Manila subsequently confirmed that the country would not only be offered submarines...

NVL Egypt, a subsidiary of NVL, started production of the PV43-M naval shipbuilding programme as planned in September....
On Wednesday, the main customs office in Kiel put the new "Fehmarn" into service...
Rohde & Schwarz supplies NAVICS for Australian Border Force patrol boats built in Australia...
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