The 1st International "March of Appreciation - for our emergency services" will take place at the official start of the 130th Kiel Week on 22 June 2024. A barrier-free circuit of around 10 kilometres invites you to "march" across Kiel Week. Afterwards, there will not only be refreshments available at the Kiel naval base - there...
The Fraunhofer Institute for Large Structures in Production Technology (Fraunhofer IGP) will be conducting research on the former site of the engine manufacturer Caterpillar in Warnemünde in future. The researchers at the new hydrogen application centre, which will open in May 2024, are investigating how climate-damaging emissions in shipping can be reduced and how ships can be made even more sustainable as a means of transport.
A cyber espionage group originating from China called "Mustang Panda" is alleged to have planted malware to take over computer systems of European shipping companies in Norway, Greece and the Netherlands. "Mustang Panda" has already been accused of espionage against governments and organisations in Asia, Australia and Europe and has used similar malware tools in the past.
The "Greenwater 01" (project no. N997) developed by China Ocean Shipping Group Company (COSCO) is designed for long-haul transport, is 120 metres long and, with a payload of 10,000 tonnes for up to 700 "twenty-foot standard containers" (TEU - Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit), is the largest fully electric container ship in the world to date. The "Greenwater 01" was launched...
The Danish government has announced a regulation that will ban the discharge of ship wastewater from open exhaust gas cleaning systems (scrubbers) into Danish territorial waters from 1 July 2025. Scrubbers are used to comply with the limit value for the sulphur content of exhaust gases set by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) in 2020. Exhaust gas cleaning systems of this kind use a...
Current fire extinguishing systems are inadequate for fighting engine room fires involving methanol-based engines, according to a new fire safety study. Engine fires In light of the growing interest in methanol as an alternative marine fuel, the study by the British company SURVITEC, a global provider of survival technologies, carried out extensive and comparative fire tests on marine engines in order to determine the...
Submarine for Singapore launched as "Inimitable" On 22 April 2024, the fourth submarine in the Type 218SG construction programme was christened at the thyssenkrupp Marine Systems shipyard in Kiel. Among the 250 invited guests were Boris Pistorius, Federal Minister of Defence, and Teo Chee Hean, Senior Minister and Coordinating Minister...
The UK North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) has once again awarded exploration licences to companies in a new oil and gas licensing round after October 2023. The successful licence holders include the British offshore majors bp, the Norwegian group Equinor and TotalEnergies E&P UK. The exploration areas now awarded are located...
From a press release by GMT, MCN and SMN On 11 April 2024, the event "Munitions in the sea - perspectives and value creation potential" took place in Rostock-Warnemünde under the organisation of the Gesellschaft für Maritime Technik e. V. (GMT), the Maritime Cluster Norddeutschland e. V. (MCN) and the Subsea Monitoring Network e. V. (SMN)....
The Nautical Sunrise project is an initiative of various energy companies and specialists in the fields of wind and solar energy as well as offshore floating solar (OFS) in order to close important knowledge gaps relating to the design and environmental impact of offshore solar energy. Various university departments are therefore also involved. The project for the world's largest floating offshore solar energy system was launched in December...
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