Commissioning of Europe's largest shore-side power plant ensures clean air in ports As part of the 12th National Maritime Conference, Europe's largest shore-side power plant will be officially inaugurated today in the port of Rostock-Warnemünde. The inauguration will be attended by the Federal Minister of Economics Peter Altmaier, the Federal Government's Coordinator for the Maritime Economy Norbert Brackmann, the Minister President...
National Maritime Conference opened On 10 May at 11:00 a.m., the 12th National Maritime Conference (NMK) began at Terminal 8 in Rostock with a press conference: Peter Altmaier, MP, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy Andreas Scheuer, MP Federal Minister for Transport and Digital Infrastructure Norbert Brackmann, MP, Federal Minister for Transport and...
The 12th National Maritime Conference starts today in Rostock-Warnemünde This year's 12th National Maritime Conference (NMK) will be broadcast digitally from the port of Rostock-Warnemünde for the first time today and tomorrow. Federal Minister Altmaier explains: "The maritime industry is one of the main pillars of Germany as a business location and is of enormous importance for an export nation....
VSM calls for fundamental restructuring of the framework conditions and a European maritime growth agenda As in the previous year, the press conference of the German Shipbuilding and Ocean Industries Association (VSM) took place digitally on 4 May. The guests were welcomed by Harald Fassmer, VSM President and Managing Director of Fr. Fassmer GmbH & Co. KG....
A guest article by Raimund Wallner On 3 February 2017, the Norwegian government announced that Germany, and not France, had been selected as the strategic partner for the submarine project to ensure the succession of the ULA class. The aim of the decision is the joint procurement and lifetime management of identical submarines based on the German Class 212A...
In July 2016, the renowned "Center for Strategic International Studies" (CSIS) in Washington D.C., founded by Admiral Arleigh Burke, published the study "Undersea Warfare in Northern Europe". Downloading and reading the almost 50-page work is well worth the time. In the acknowledgements, the attentive reader learns that "experts from Finland, Poland,...
On 16 March, the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2030 was presented by the Federal Minister of Transport and Digital Infrastructure, Alexander Dobrindt (CSU). According to the ministry's plans, the federal government is to invest 264.5 billion euros in Germany's road, rail and waterway networks by 2030. The aim is to prioritise the maintenance and renovation of existing...
Something is slowly happening in the maritime sector! On 9 November, the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi) announced that the Bundestag had decided "...to increase funding for the promotion of innovation in German shipbuilding by one million euros. This means that the federal government will provide a total of 13 million euros in 2013 as part of the...
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