Category: Shipping

Search for unexploded ordnance on the seabed

Search for unexploded ordnance on the seabed

Posted by | 1 Feb 2024 | , , | 0

Kennen Sie die Abkürzung UXO? Die Abkürzung steht für „Unexploded Ordnance“, nicht explodierte Munition, umgangssprachlich auch Blindgänger genannt. Hierbei handelt es sich zumeist um Kampfmittelaltlasten, wie Raketen, Granaten oder Bomben, die nach Abschuss oder Abwurf nicht oder nicht vollständig explodiert sind. In der deutschen Nord- und Ostsee lagern davon ca. 1,6 Millionen Tonnen konventioneller Munition und rund 5.000 Tonnen chemischer Kampfstoffe, die im Zweiten Weltkrieg durch Militäroperationen oder danach durch Verklappung versenkt wurden. Diese jahrzehntealten Sprengstoffe stellen stets eine ernsthafte Gefahr dar. Allgemein werden diese bei Gefährdung der Schifffahrt durch die Kampfmittelräumdienste (KRD) entschärft, geborgen und der einzigen deutschen...

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Corvette "Oldenburg" back from UN deployment

Corvette "Oldenburg" back from UN deployment

Posted by | 30 Jan 2024 | , , , | 0

Warnemünde - Today, Tuesday, 30 January 2024, the corvette "Oldenburg" returned to her home base in Warnemünde after a deployment of more than six months. The Class 130 ship left its home port 170 days ago with its crew under the command of Corvette Captain Markus Schwefer (38) to take part in the mandated foreign mission UNIFIL (United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon) off the Lebanese coast and as the flagship in the NATO support mission in the Aegean. In his final review, the commander summarised with satisfaction. He can look back on a long, intensive and varied time in the various operational areas in the Mediterranean, each with their own different challenges.

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Royal Navy: Collision in the harbour of Bahrain

Royal Navy: Collision in the harbour of Bahrain

Posted by | 24 Jan 2024 | , , , | 0

LONDON - Two British Royal Navy minesweepers have collided while manoeuvring in Bahrain harbour, according to the local Ministry of Defence. It happens in every navy in the world - and many a day on the bridge of a warship is a "bad day in the office" that really wasn't needed. This is what has now happened to the Royal Navy, and with all the media reporting on it, we can't escape it. Old commanders and veteran captains should watch the video below with caution - it brings back memories of the risks and side effects of their own seagoing days! Also in the...

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Shipping company and sailors develop unique concept

Shipping company and sailors develop unique concept

Posted by | 19 Jan 2024 | , , , | 0

Hamburg: The merchant shipping industry is under pressure. The EU wants the European fleet to be climate-neutral by 2050. To achieve this goal, shipping companies are experimenting with innovative forms of propulsion. These include hydrogen-based fuels, but also age-old methods such as sail propulsion. The long-established Hamburg shipping company Hapag-Lloyd is currently developing a container ship with sail propulsion. Marineforum.online reported on this on 18 December 2023, but now further details have been announced and the internationally renowned sailing professional Boris Herrmann from "Team Malizia" is now a partner of Hapag-Lloyd. Concept The plan is to build a new ship with a load capacity of 4,500 standard 20-foot containers. According to the current design, the freighter will be 261 metres...

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Russia's LNG projects make progress despite sanctions

Russia's LNG projects make progress despite sanctions

Posted by | 18 Jan 2024 | , , , , | 0

Russia's largest producer of liquefied natural gas (LNG), Novatek, has completed the first line of its "Arctic LNG 2" project despite US and EU sanctions. The first LNG deliveries are scheduled to be shipped in the first quarter of 2024. PROFILE Arctic LNG 2 will have three production strings that can produce a total of 19.8 million tonnes per year. Each line will therefore have a capacity of 6.6 million tonnes. The other two production lines are expected to go into operation by 2026. Special feature: each production line will not be firmly founded in the permafrost, as is usually the case, but will be floating on gravity-based structures (GBS) in the Gulf of Ob....

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