Focus on recruiting young talent On Saturday, 9 August 2025 at 12 noon, the sail training ship "Gorch Fock" will leave its home port of Kiel for a very special voyage, a late summer voyage, as part of the 187th/188th foreign training voyage. On Tuesday, 5 August 2025, the ship will move to Sartorikai, where it will take part in...
The cloudy weather during the beginning of the school holidays in the north of Germany has ensured full car parks and long queues in front of the Ozeaneum and the Oceanographic Museum in Stralsund (Vorpommern-Rügen district). Evidence of a strong interest in habitats on and in the water. The German Oceanographic Museum has a total of four locations, which are...
So now it is happening after all, although the last owner still emphasised that the ship would not be scrapped. Rumours of it being scrapped had been circulating for years. The oldest transatlantic cruiser in the world, which became known as the GDR dream ship, has arrived at a scrapping yard in Belgium. This marks the end of the long journey of the former...
Traditional ships are the maritime centrepiece of every sailing event, such as Kiel Week. They keep tradition alive and bring it to life. Now, however, a traditional sailing ship anchored in the Kiel Fjord and inspected by the water police is said to have discharged around 1,000 litres of faeces (black water) into the Baltic Sea. According to the report, the...
Chinese container ships have been authorised by Russia to cross the Arctic Ocean on the Northeast Passage without icebreakers. The ships include the NEWNEW PANDA 1 (42,000 tonnes, 264 metres long), making it one of the largest container ships to cross the Arctic. However, the Panamax ship does not have an ice class,...
Chinese container ships have been authorised by Russia to cross the Arctic Ocean on the Northeast Passage without icebreakers. The ships include the NEWNEW PANDA 1 (42,000 tonnes, 264 metres long), making it one of the largest container ships to cross the Arctic. However, the Panamax ship does not have an ice class,...
During a joint demonstration by German Naval Yards and CMN Naval (Constructions Mécaniques de Normandie) in Cherbourg, Anschütz was able to demonstrate the performance of its autonomous navigation and deployment system. During a high-speed voyage, the unmanned test vessel manoeuvred autonomously, maintained the specified course and avoided recognised hazards in accordance with the rules. The test...
During a joint demonstration by German Naval Yards and CMN Naval (Constructions Mécaniques de Normandie) in Cherbourg, Anschütz was able to demonstrate the performance of its autonomous navigation and deployment system. During a high-speed voyage, the unmanned test vessel manoeuvred autonomously, maintained the specified course and avoided recognised hazards in accordance with the rules. The test...
German seaport companies have reached a new collective agreement with the trade union surprisingly quickly. The approximately 11,000 port workers in Hamburg and the other northern German coastal states will receive a 3.1 per cent wage increase and one-off payments from August. It only took two days of negotiations before the trade union ver.di and...
German seaport companies have reached a new collective agreement with the trade union surprisingly quickly. The approximately 11,000 port workers in Hamburg and the other northern German coastal states will receive a 3.1 per cent wage increase and one-off payments from August. It only took two days of negotiations before the trade union ver.di and...
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