The the mayor is already rowing back!! Town Major "Ahmed Aboutaleb" (look at that name) gave an interview in the newspaper the "Algemeen Dagblad"...
In the following, I am only expressing my personal opinion, as I do not want to talk to their lawyers and have YF loose an advertiser. I...
In the early sixties my father lost a cargo vessel due to grounding in a gail force storm only a few miles away from the grounding of Mumbai...
Lets wait and see. Do not underestimate the political power of public protests in Europe. And the opposition is rising at the moment in the...
Mapism You are correct, Mumbai Maersk has left its planned ground track. But I still believe they did not try to make a shortcut. The Captain of a...
As far as I know, they used a different building process, shedule and different building places this time, for pure in-house and may be even...
Yes, the whole sea bottom in that area is sand only. Especially the wadden sea and the long shallow beaches in front of the islands are loosing a...
I believe Oceanco and Mr. Bezos have a little problem with his new 415 ft long and 450 Mio $ sailing yacht. The historical harbour bridge „De...
The first towing attempt early in the morning was obviously unsuccsessful. The high tide was not high enough and the tugs not strong enough....
We have the next mishap in the North Sea off the coast of Germany as of this morning. The 1.300 ft long box carrier Mumbai Maersk has run aground...
Jsschieff, do You think, Abeking and Rasmussen would qualify for that task? Ocean Independence is involved in the project and there is a...
Great job by the SAR crews. Those guys go flying, when the rest of the flying community takes cover in their hangars because of the bad weather. I...
A few more pictures [ATTACH] Above You can see the clumsy attempt to restore her bow to the original design. [ATTACH] This was not a...
As I said above, Argosy was transported with float in dock ship from Naples to Brake on the Weser River. This is the ship that carried her: Roll...
Just to confirm, I am not involved in salvage business. This pretty rough business is in the North Sea nearly fully in the hands of Dutch and...
Salvage crews have meanwhile entered the abandoned ship and are trying to take over a towing line from the salvage tug. The abandoned ship was...
We have had gail force storm over the weekend in the north sea with wind speeds up to 70 Kts. There is a lot of damage to coast of Germany and the...
It is well known and standing procedure in Germany, that for any government subsidy, 10 % of the loan has to be added by the recieving party....
Some more infos about her life as a US warship USS, Cythera II (PY-31) from 1942 to 1946. Cythery I (PY-26) was sunk by German submarine off the...
As my Grandmother (from my mothers side of the family) was Jewish, I was always very interested in the establishment of the state of Israel. I...
