Category: Shipping

Global Mercy in Dakar: Patients from Senegal and Gambia are operated on free of charge

Global Mercy in Dakar: Patients from Senegal and Gambia are operated on free of charge

Gepostet von | 19 Feb 2023 | , , , | 0

Mercy Ships' new hospital ship was built especially for this purpose and is now starting its first humanitarian mission. The Global Mercy, the largest civilian hospital ship in the world, arrived in Dakar, Senegal, yesterday. After carrying out medical training programmes in Senegal last year, the Global Mercy will be performing surgical operations for the first time this year. As part of this mission, Mercy Ships is working with both the Senegalese Ministry of Health and the Gambian Ministry of Health to treat patients from both countries. All operations take place on board the...

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First visit by Defence Minister Boris Pistorius to the German Navy

First visit by Defence Minister Boris Pistorius to the German Navy

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From a press release by Rostock Naval Command: On Tuesday, 21 February 2023, Defence Minister Boris Pistorius will visit the German Navy in Eckernförde for the first time. He will take the opportunity to familiarise himself with part of the Navy's range of capabilities, both at sea and on land. After an exchange with the Inspector of the Navy, Vice Admiral Jan Christian Kaack, Minister Pistorius will visit the submarine training centre. This will be followed by a demonstration of the naval battalion's capabilities before sea voyages on the minehunter "Bad Bevensen" and the frigate "Hessen" are on the agenda. There he will gain an insight into working and living on board a warship....

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Godmother of the Gorch Fock deceased

Godmother of the Gorch Fock deceased

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Ulli Kinau, born in 1944, was the niece of the seafaring poet Johann Wilhelm Kinau, whose pen name Gorch Fock became the namesake of the famous sailing ship class of Blohm & Voss Hamburg twice. As the 14-year-old daughter of brother and journalist Rudolf Kinau, who became famous through the radio series "Hör mal'n beten to", Ulli Kinau was allowed to christen the ship of the young German Navy. More than ten thousand people gathered for the occasion on 23 August 1958. She lived in Finkenwerder and was involved in seafaring all her life.

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New commander for the 2nd Frigate Squadron

New commander for the 2nd Frigate Squadron

Gepostet von | 16 Feb 2023 | , , , | 0

Change of command took place on the "Hessen" On Thursday, 16 February 2023 at 14:30, Flotilla Admiral Axel Schulz (52) handed over command of the 2nd Frigate Squadron from Captain Torben Jürgensen (47) to the new commander of the squadron, Frigate Captain Olliver Pfennig (48). The handover ceremony took place on the frigate "Hessen" at the Heppenser Groden naval base in Wilhelmshaven. After only 16 months in office, Jürgensen was called to Berlin as Adjutant to the Inspector General of the German Armed Forces. For his successor, the takeover is linked to a return to his home squadron. The change was carried out on the ship on which Pfennig was commander,...

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Breaking sanctions under a false flag - illegal Russian tankers are a maritime nightmare

Breaking sanctions under a false flag - illegal Russian tankers are a maritime nightmare

Gepostet von | 15 Feb 2023 | , , | 0

Under the title "Ships Are Flying False Flags to Dodge Sanctions", an article by columnist Elisabeth Braw appeared in Foreign Policy magazine on 30 January 2023, the most important statements of which are summarised here. Ownership - register - flag Elisabeth Braw begins by stating that ship ownership in the world is unevenly distributed among countries: the three countries with the largest shipping companies are China, Greece and Japan. But none of these countries are among the top countries under whose flags all these ships actually sail! Even the fourth-placed United States and fifth-placed Germany are not among them. Flag of...

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