Category: Shipping

25 June - Day of the Seafarer

25 June - Day of the Seafarer

Gepostet von | 26 Jun 2025 | , , | 0

The International Day of Seafarers takes place every year on 25 June. The United Nations' International Maritime Organisation (IMO) launched this day of action in 2010 to draw public attention to the mostly neglected concerns of seafarers and to honour their work. Every year, the IMO has a special motto for this day. In 2025 it is "My harrassment-free ship". Here is the IMO's video for Seafarers' Day 2025 The approximately 1.8 million seafarers supply the whole world with almost everything they need on a daily basis. And...

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Gorch Fock back for the windjammer parade

Gorch Fock back for the windjammer parade

Gepostet von | 24 Jun 2025 | , , | 0

and will lead the windjammer parade "befitting her rank"! On Thursday, 26 June 2025, the German Navy's sail training ship will return to its home port of Kiel. The ship has been underway since 10 February 2025. It called at the ports of Vigo (Spain), Portimao, Funchal, Horta, Ponta Delgada (Portugal), Lerwik (Great Britain) and Warnemünde. The "Gorch Fock" travelled a total of 9,272 nautical miles, 8,374 of which were under sail. The "Gorch Fock" will return to her berth at the Kiel-Wik naval base in the middle of Kieler Woche and thus for the Open Ship on Friday, 27 June 2025 from 11 am to 5 pm. It will then be the meanwhile...

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Calm for the harbour porpoises

Calm for the harbour porpoises

Gepostet von | 20 Jun 2025 | , , , | 0

The German Motor Yacht Association (DMYV) is campaigning for the protection of harbour porpoises The aim of the project is to raise awareness of the harbour porpoise, the only whale permanently resident in German waters. As the DMYV announced in a press release, recreational skippers should actively contribute to the protection of the animals and their habitats. Detailed underwater noise measurements have now been carried out with recreational shipping in the North Sea. The sound measurements were carried out as part of the BUND project "Quiet for the harbour porpoises", which is funded by the Lower Saxony Bingo Environmental Foundation and the Lower Saxony Wadden Sea Foundation. The harbour porpoise, which measures up to approx. 160 cm in length and is on the Red List of...

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Kiel Week - only with the German Navy

Kiel Week - only with the German Navy

Gepostet von | 19 Jun 2025 | , , | 0

"Coming home, letting go and experiencing" - that is the German Navy's motto for Kiel Week The German Navy is welcoming a good 30 ships and boats from twelve nations to the 131st Kiel Week from 20 to 29 June 2025. More than 1,800 marines from all over the world will populate the sailing capital of Germany. Among the guests will be the US command ship "USS Mount Whitney". The US destroyer DDG 117 "USS Paul Ignatius" has already left the Baltic Sea. The reason is the Middle East conflict, the destroyer is needed in the Mediterranean. On Thursday, 26 June 2025, the...

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Bremen - DGzRS celebrates the birthday of selfless help

Bremen - DGzRS celebrates the birthday of selfless help

Gepostet von | 3 Jun 2025 | , , | 0

The German Maritime Search and Rescue Service (DGzRS) was founded in Kiel on 29 May 1865 and, over the past 160 years, has laid the foundations for a sustainable, donation-financed and therefore independent sea rescue service in Germany with selfless helpfulness, constantly renewed rescue equipment and good organisation. Until the middle of the 19th century, these conditions did not exist in the North and Baltic Seas. However, the idea of a uniform, independent organisation that rescues people from distress at sea regardless of the person or cause finally prevailed. It was a long way from the rowing lifeboat to the rescue cruiser and thanks to the great support from...

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