26 June 2025 - Virtual regulars' table of the Personnel and Qualification specialist group, online
The virtual regulars' table takes place monthly and is intended to provide a framework for networking, exchanging views on current topics relating to personnel and qualification, and planning joint activities.
26 June 2025 - The National Ceremony for the Entry into Force of the Hong Kong Convention, Bremerhaven
16 years after its adoption, the International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships, the Hong Kong Convention, will enter into force worldwide on 26 June 2025. We want to honour this special milestone for the maritime industry with a national ceremony at the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven.
26/27 June 2025 - 11th Future Conference of the Maritime Industry, Rostock
The 11th Future Conference of the Maritime Industrywhich will take place on 26 and 27 June 2025 in Rostock, is dedicated to the sustainable maritime transformation.
Focussing on maritime energy and climate change, maritime security and the maritime industry of the future, experts will provide a compact overview of the current status of developments and their innovative application in practice. Representatives of maritime companies, science and politics from northern Germany and beyond will discuss trends and potential and exchange best practice examples. An accompanying exhibition and the evening reception on 26 June offer an exchange of experiences and space for personal networking in a pleasant atmosphere.
04 July 2025 - Workshop MCN Underwater Communication Specialist Group, Kiel
In 2026, extensive conversion measures to JANUS (STANAG 4748, current version of ANEP 87 Version 2, under https://nso.nato.int/nso/nsdd/main/standards?search=4748 ) and for underwater communication in ISO IEC SC41 Internet of Things and Digital Twins.
The MCN Underwater Communication Specialist Group can get involved here and changes and suggestions can be discussed by the group. We should therefore prepare ourselves. Please find attached a first change proposal, which we should then discuss and develop further, to be submitted to the appropriate place at the beginning of autumn.
08 July 2025 - Maritime Business Breakfast "Crisis of the contractual partner - pack up or carry on?, Hamburg
Especially in times of increasing insolvencies - also in the maritime sector - it is important to master the rules of insolvency law. Impending insolvencies of contractual partners can mean enormous risks for your own company.
However, with the necessary tools of insolvency law, such crisis situations can also be used as an opportunity for the future.
Tilman Rückert from Lawentus and Thorben Langhinrichs from BRL will provide valuable insights into insolvency law, tips on how to draft insolvency-proof contracts and use real-life examples to show how to recognise insolvency.
08 July 2025 - Maritime Stammtisch: Nautisch-Technischer Inspektoren-Kreis Hamburg
In cooperation with the NTIK, the MCN is once again offering its members and partners, as well as those interested in the industry, the opportunity to take part in the tried-and-tested Maritime Stammtisch format in 2025. The NTIK has been organising specialist evenings on topics that are important for shipping company inspectors since 1985. MCN members who register in the maritime calendar can take part in the event without being a member of the NTIK.
On 8 July, Svante Fink and Volker Wenzel from Anschütz Navigation a lecture on the subject of "Anschütz Fuel Saving Autopilot" in the BLOCKBRÄU from 6 pm. Catering will be provided.
18 July 2025 - Maritime Breakfast MV, Rostock
We cordially invite you to our second Maritime Breakfast MV this year. It is the event series of the MCN in MV with quarterly meetings in small groups to exchange ideas on maritime topics and to network in the "House of Shipping" at the Reederei Laeisz G.m.b.H. in Rostock. The focus is on networking and thematic dialogue.
Under the title "Hurdles in the digitalisation of ships (and proposed solutions)" presents Kathleen Kuhn, Maritime Consultant at MARSIG mbH from Rostock on how digital solutions can be implemented on existing ships. The focus here is on the different perspectives of the players involved and the underlying processes.
02/03 September 2025 - Organiser DWT - Berlin, KOSMOS Berlin
BWI Industry Days | The BWI Industry Days will also be held in 2025 - on 02 and 03 September at KOSMOS Berlin. Details on this event will follow.
09/10 September 2025 - Organiser DWT - Erfurt, Exhibition Centre
THE "Logistics event 2025". Registration is now open for exhibitors (classic exhibition stands are just as welcome as "heavy equipment" or lorries) and visitors.
18/19 September 2025 - MCN event - Dr. Brill + Partner GmbH, Norderney
Dr Brill + Partner GmbH - Institute for Antifouling and Biocorrosion - presents one of the most exciting research locations in Germany. Here they are testing what will be effective against fouling on maritime surfaces tomorrow.
30 September 2025 - General Meeting 2025 of the MCN e. V., Hamburg
The Maritime Cluster Northern Germany invites its members to the annual general meeting, which this year will be held at the German Harbour Museum in Hamburg. The members' meeting will take place after the meeting.
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And don't forget, this year's Maritime Convention is taking place in Berlin on 12 November. However, participation is by invitation only, and the event is already fully booked.