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Seabed Infrastructure Security: Northern Europe gets going!

Seabed Infrastructure Security: Northern Europe gets going!

Gepostet von | 13 Dec 2023 | , , , | 0

Six northern European countries (Denmark, Germany, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden) are intensifying their cooperation in the field of maritime infrastructure. One part of this is the Seabed Security Experimentation Centre (SeaSEC), which has just been inaugurated in The Hague. The establishment of the SeaSEC is part of the Northern Naval Capability Cooperation (NNCC), which was officially ratified in Washington in early December 2023. The NNCC was established to strengthen the northern maritime industry and develop the best available systems and equipment. Rethinking PPPs Public, private and military partners are now working together to examine how important underwater infrastructure such as data cables, pipelines and platforms for fossil fuels and...

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Frankfurt am Main: On time at home in Wilhelmshaven

Frankfurt am Main: On time at home in Wilhelmshaven

Gepostet von | 12 Dec 2023 | , , | 0

From a press release by the Naval Command: On Friday, 15.12.2023 at 10 a.m., the Einsatzgruppenversorger (EGV) "Frankfurt am Main" will return to its home port of Wilhelmshaven after 23,000 nautical miles, corresponding to 42,600 kilometres, or one circumnavigation of the globe. The "Frankfurt am Main" remained in the Mediterranean for longer after the actual end of its mission in order to be able to assist with a possible evacuation of German citizens after the outbreak of war in Israel. After months away from home, the soldiers are looking forward to spending Christmas and New Year's Eve with their families before the "Frankfurt am Main" departs for the Indo-Pacific Deployment (IPD) next year. The commander of the task force supply ship,...

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Trouble looms in Hamburg: "Cosco" calls union ver.di to the scene

Trouble looms in Hamburg: "Cosco" calls union ver.di to the scene

Gepostet von | 12 Dec 2023 | , , | 0

Hamburg: The Chinese state shipping company "Cosco" wants to secure containers on board itself in future - a service for which so-called "lashers" are usually employed. The Chinese state-owned shipping company "Cosco" has held a 24.9 per cent stake in the "Tollerort" terminal of Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) since the summer. According to the trade union ver.di, however, "Cosco" now wants to leave the securing of containers on one of its feeder ships to the seafarers on board. For ver.di, this would be a breach of collective labour agreements - jobs are seen as being at risk. ver.di has called on "Cosco" to refrain from independently "lashing" and for HHLA to ensure that the seafarers at its Hamburg terminals...

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SNMCMG1: Minehunter Bad Bevensen back home

SNMCMG1: Minehunter Bad Bevensen back home

Gepostet von | 10 Dec 2023 | , , | 0

From a press release by Rostock Naval Command: "The minehunting boat "Bad Bevensen" of the 3rd Minehunting Squadron has been part of NATO's Standing NATO Mine CounterMeasures Group 1 for the past five months. It was also part of the Very High Readiness Joint Task Force Maritime for the North and Baltic Seas. Under the command of Corvette Captain Kevin Linken, the almost 30-year-old boat called at 16 harbours in nine countries in five months, covered almost 10,000 nautical miles and removed eight contaminated sites (mines). For the "Bad Bevensen", a shipyard lay-up period begins in 2024. Background information In addition to the missions mandated by the German Bundestag, the...

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