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Marispace-X at the National Maritime Conference

Marispace-X presented the key to the Blue Data Economy - from digital situational awareness to digital business models The Kiel-based software developer north.io, together with consortium partner Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel and the Gaia-X Hub Germany, presented the Marispace-X project funded by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection (BMWK) at this year's Jann Wendt, Managing Director of north.io and coordinator of Marispace-X, was delighted because, according to Wendt, Marispace-X's participation in this prestigious conference underlines the importance of the largest industry-driven maritime digitalisation project for the development of the maritime data economy of the future. In addition, Wendt emphasises that the secure and sovereign exchange of maritime data is the...

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Change of command on task force supply ship "Berlin"

On Tuesday, 19 September 2023 at 1 p.m., the commander of the Trossgeschwader, Frigate Captain Thorsten Geldmacher, will hand over command of the Einsatzgruppenversorger "Berlin" from Frigate Captain Stefan Klatt to Frigate Captain Karsten Uwe Schlüter. The ceremony will take place on the task force provider "Berlin" at the "German Naval Yards" shipyard in Kiel. Frigate Captain Klatt took over the post of commander on the "Berlin" in 2019. In future, he will work at the naval command in Rostock as a conception and development officer and thus contribute to maintaining and optimising the future viability of the navy. The new commander, Frigate Captain Karsten Uwe Schlüter, previously served on the...

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Extraordinary tour to extraordinary companies

Maritime Cluster Northern Germany on an "Afsteken" tour through Bremerhaven Alongside Europe's longest Stromkaje quay, Bremerhaven is contributing to the future of Germany as a maritime centre with a number of innovative companies. This was the conclusion reached by the participants of this year's second "Afsteken" tour organised by the Bremen office of the Maritime Cluster Northern Germany (MCN). Around two dozen members of the network took part in this extraordinary tour of exceptional companies. "We have once again achieved our goal of bringing maritime companies and entrepreneurs together to discuss innovative products and services," said a delighted Andreas Born, Head of the MCN's Bremen office.Anyone visiting the port, shipbuilding and shipping city of Bremerhaven will come across an unusual company...

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Europe relies on Miricle

With the EU-funded Miricle project, European navies will benefit from high interoperability and new capabilities in the field of mine defence. Naval Group Belgium plays a key role in this. The Mine Risk Clearance for Europe project, Miricle for short, which was continued in the shadow of Russia's unexpected attack on Ukraine, is now even more important as not only the coastal regions of the Black Sea are now littered with sea mines of various kinds, including unanchored floating weapons from the Soviet era. The Miricle project, which addresses the trend away from traditional mine action with mine hunters towards a stand-off mine defence concept, is aimed at the...

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"Strengthen the location. Protect the climate. Shaping the future"

The 13th National Maritime Conference 2023 (NMK) took place from 14-15.09.23 at the Bremen Congress Centre. The NMK is one of the German government's most important instruments for supporting the maritime industry and is also an industry meeting. It was the first conference organised by the Scholz government, and therefore also by the host maritime coordinator Dieter Janecek.

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