Accident in the Kiel Canal: Two cargo ships collided head-on on March 29, 2022. The canal had to be closed to shipping for several hours. Damage in the Kiel Canal near the Levensau high [...]
Sail training ship Gorch Fock back in the home port of Kiel. Return on March 25, 2022 to the naval base in Kiel. Welcome back! After several months of training with stations on the [...]
Software problem paralyzes shipping traffic in the Kiel Canal for hours. A new software for controlling the ships caused problems between Brunsbüttel and Kiel on Sunday. On Sunday, a software error caused shipping traffic to [...]
More money for the Norwegian Navy: Norway is increasing its defense budget for 2022. According to Defense Minister Enoksen, the defense budget for the current year 2022 will be increased by a further 300 [...]
Barcelona: Alleged oligarch luxury yacht Valerie arrested in port. The 85-meter yacht is attributed to Sergei Chemezov, head of the Russian armaments company Rostec. After several luxury yachts were seized by Russian oligarchs in [...]
Baltic Sea cruises 2022: Kiel or Warnemünde instead of St. Petersburg, because cruise lines are removing all Russian ports from their travel programs. Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, almost all shipping companies [...]
Megayacht Sailing Yacht A (SY A) impounded in Italy. The 142 meter long sailing yacht, which cost around 530 million euros, is attributed to the Russian billionaire Andrei Melnitschenko. Scores of Russians have already [...]
Russia-Ukraine conflict: Bundeswehr sends more warships to reinforce NATO's northern flank. Five mine countermeasures units and a tender left the Kiel-Wik naval base today, Monday. Due to growing tensions with Russia and against the background [...]
