According to NDR, fire investigators and police in Rostock harbour have largely completed their investigations into the wrecked coastal tanker "Annika". The Federal Bureau of Maritime Casualty Investigation (BSU) announced that the results will now be analysed and summarised in a report; however, it will probably take more than a year before the report is presented.
A watershed project - for the navy, for procurement, for industry The largest shipbuilding project in the history of the Bundeswehr to date is the 126 class frigate. The Niedersachsen class is an armaments project for six ships, with 5.27 billion euros already budgeted for the first four. What the ship...
The workhorse of the Leibnitz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW), the research vessel "Elisabeth Mann Borgese", had sudden technical problems with the steering gear and stabilisers and had to be taken to the Peene shipyard in Wolgast for an unscheduled repair. The ship was built in 1986 at the former Kröger shipyard in Schacht-Audorf near Rendsburg in Schleswig-Holstein and...
The German Navy still needs its good old frigate "Karlsruhe" - as a test object for blasting tests. Update from 25.10.2024 The background to the explosions is an investigation by the Bundeswehr's WTD 71 (Wehrtechnische Dienststelle) for Ships and Naval Weapons, Maritime Technology and Research, located in Eckernförde in Schleswig-Holstein. It aims to gain insights into the effect of...
Two SWATH@A&R pilot tenders - new build for Nederlands Loodswezen by Abeking and Rasmussen 20 years after the Nederlands Loodswezen put the first of two 25m SWATH@A&R (Small Waterplane Area Twin Hull) into service, this long-standing good relationship has been sealed with a new contract. The latest generation of the 25m...
New "KORA" electronic warfare system commissioned The Bundeswehr Procurement Office has commissioned the delivery and integration of new electronic warfare systems (EloKa) on the Sachsen-class frigates (F124). After a total service life of more than 40 years, the German Navy's previous standard EloKa system "FL 1800S-II" will be replaced on some units...
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...The Norwegian state-owned company Equinor is planning a comprehensive emergency preparedness programme for the oil and gas fields in the south-western Barents Sea. On the initiative of the Barents Sea Operation Cooperation, a new collaboration is being established between Vår Energi, the operator of the Goliat oil field (around 85 kilometres northwest of the town of Hammerfest), and Equinor, which also has a stake in the oil field...
National security services from Belgium, Germany, Finland, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden briefed Norwegian officials and executives from the energy sector in August on the suspected threats to critical infrastructure (KRITIS) posed by Russia. When we talk about sabotage today, we talk about Russia, said the head of Norwegian counterintelligence (PST),...
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