The Marine Environmental Protection Committee (MEPC) of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) in London has postponed the vote on the net zero framework and CO2 taxation. The extraordinary meeting is to be resumed in 12 months. In the meantime, the member states want to continue working towards a consensus on the...
Egypt's Suez Canal Authority (SCA) is endeavouring to resume shipping traffic through its waterway after revenues - and thus the contribution to the state budget - had been steadily declining. At a meeting with the Danish ambassador and a high-ranking delegation, the chairman of the Suez Canal Authority emphasised the long-standing relationship with Maersk...
On 25 December 2024, the tanker "Eagle S" lost its anchor and dragged for many miles across the seabed of the Baltic Sea. This resulted in damage to critical infrastructure. The captain and the ship's first and second officers were therefore charged with serious damage to five underwater cables of critical infrastructure.
With Anschütz Autonomics, Anschütz aims to sharpen the system profile of its autonomy modules for naval and security applications. At its core, the company is linking the certified SYNAPSIS bridge, which has proven itself in fleet use, more closely to autonomous functions: optical target tracking, rule-compliant collision avoidance (COLREG/KVR) and advanced motion control for precise course and speed guidance, including station keeping. In addition, SYNTACS Autonomics takes over the...
The "Redwing" underwater mission: What the new glider can do - and what it (can't) do for defence and security Teledyne Marine (Thousand Oaks, California) and Rutgers University (New Brunswick, New Jersey) sent the Slocum Sentinel glider "Redwing" on an orbit of the earth lasting up to five years off Martha's Vineyard (Massachusetts) on 10 October 2025...
Niarchos, Onassis, Livanos & Co.: memories of a German-Greek economic miracle More than 20,000 Hamburgers crowded onto the grounds of the Howaldtswerke in Hamburg harbour when a legendary chapter of German economic history was written. The launch of the giant tanker "Tina Onassis" in the summer of 1953 was a key moment in the new beginning. The shipyards in Hamburg,...
The Romanian Navy has commissioned the former British minehunter HMS Pembroke (Sandown class) at an official ceremony in Rosyth, Scotland, under the name "Capitan Constantin Dumitrescu" (M 271). Together with their sister ship Ex HMS Blyth, both mine defence vessels were refurbished in cooperation with the industry (Babcock) before they were taken into service by...
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