Tag: Maritime

ASEAN-Gipfel konzentriert sich auf maritime Sicherheit und Handel inmitten der Spannungen im Südchinesischen Meer – Euractiv

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Australiens Premierminister Anthony Albanese sagte am Mittwoch (6. März), dass maritime Sicherheit, Handel und saubere Energie die Zukunft des Landes mit dem ASEAN-Block prägen werden, da Peking seine Präsenz im umkämpften Südchinesischen Meer ausbauen will.

Australien ist Gastgeber des ASEAN-Gipfels in Melbourne, der den 50. Jahrestag seiner Beziehungen zur ASEAN markiert, auch wenn es innerhalb des 10-köpfigen Blocks weiterhin Meinungsverschiedenheiten über Chinas Pläne zur Ausweitung der diplomatischen und militärischen Präsenz in der Region gab.

„Australien verpflichtet sich, mit Ihnen zusammenzuarbeiten,

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Ziele für Wasser, maritime Innovation als nächstes – Euractiv

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Der EIT-Gipfel 2024, der am 20. Februar stattfand, enthüllte die Ambitionen des Europäischen Instituts für Innovation und Technologie (EIT), die Kraft der Sonne zu nutzen, wobei der Schwerpunkt auf Innovationen in der Solartechnologie und der Ausbildung Tausender Solaringenieure liegt.

Das EIT ist Europas größtes Innovationsökosystem und kündigte auf der INNOVEIT 2024 eine Zusammenarbeit mit der Solar Impulse Foundation zur Schaffung einer neuen Europäischen Solarakademie an.

Als EU-Institution und integraler Bestandteil von Horizon Europe hat das EIT die Aufgabe, die gesamte

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Ukraine declares war on Russia’s Black Sea shipping – POLITICO

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Russian ports and ships on the Black Sea — including tankers carrying millions of barrels of oil to Europe — could justifiably be attacked by the Ukrainian military as part of efforts to weaken Moscow’s war machine, a senior Kyiv official warned Monday in the wake of two recent attacks on Russian vessels.

“Everything the Russians are moving back and forth on the Black Sea are our valid military

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Drone attack on tanker shows Kyiv’s intent to hit Russian energy shipments – POLITICO

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KYIV — An overnight naval drone attack against a Russian tanker in the Black Sea signals a potential new front in the Ukraine war, with Kyiv delivering its strongest message to date that it is willing to target Moscow’s all-important shipments of oil and fuel.

The battle for supremacy in the Black Sea is ramping up fast, with massive implications for global energy and food security. The attack on

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Russia threatening civilian vessels in the Black Sea, Ukraine says – POLITICO

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Russia is threatening civilian vessels in the Black Sea, more than a week after the Kremlin reneged on a U.N.-backed deal to allow Kyiv to export grain across the Black Sea, the Ukrainian president’s chief of staff said.

“Russian warships are threatening civilians in the waters of the Black Sea, violating all norms of international maritime law,” Andriy Yermak, head of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s office, said on Telegram on Friday.

Yermak added that these are the “methods of terrorists” and

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EV technology could be a risk to under-prepared maritime shippers

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LOS ANGELES — Electric vehicles are crisscrossing the globe to reach their eager buyers, but the battery technology involved in the zero-emission automobiles is exposing under-prepared maritime shippers to the risk of hard-to-control fires, industry, insurance and emergency response officials said.

That risk has been put under the spotlight by the burning car carrier drifting off the Dutch coast. The Dutch coastguard said the fire’s cause was unknown, but Dutch broadcaster RTL released a recording in which an emergency responder

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Macron condemns ‘new imperialism’ in the Indo-Pacific amid growing Chinese influence – POLITICO

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PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron denounced “new imperialism” in the Indo-Pacific on Thursday as he pledged France would boost its presence in the region to defend the sovereignty of smaller states.

“In the Indo-Pacific, and particularly in Oceania, a new imperialism is appearing, and a power logic that is threatening the sovereignty of several states, the smallest, often the most fragile,” Macron said in a speech in Vanuatu. The French president is on a five-day visit to the South

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On the night watch – POLITICO

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It’s an hour before dawn breaks over the North Sea. Aboard the KV Bergen, the officer of the watch is wide awake. 

The 93-meter long Norwegian Navy Coast Guard vessel is on patrol, 50 miles out to sea. The sky is dark, the sea darker. But off the starboard bow, bright lights gleam through the rain and mist. Something huge and incongruous is looming out of the water, lit like a Christmas display.  

“Troll A,” says Torgeir Standal, 49, the

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