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12 Sep 2018

New Strategies to Guard Against Future Security Threats

©Hamburg Messe und Congress, Rolf Otzipka

The international conference on maritime security and defense (MS&D), held for the seventh time in Hamburg during the SMM maritime trade fair, focused on current and future challenges to maritime security and defense. Twenty naval, industrial and science experts discussed topics such as how to protect international ocean trading routes, when and how to deploy naval forces on crisis missions, as well as cyber security issues.The welcome address opened the event with somber words as Rear Admiral Thorsten Kähler…

15 Oct 2015

Thyssen Manager to Focus on Australian Sub Deal

German industrial group ThyssenKrupp is moving one of its top managers to focus on a hotly contested $35 billion bid to build stealth submarines for Australia, it said on Thursday. Hans Christoph Atzpodien, 60, will leave his post as head of the German group's Industrial Solutions division to concentrate on Marine Systems, one of the division's four units, which includes submarines, naval vessels and ships. "The bidding for the Australia project in particular is a major opportunity for Marine Systems requiring the full attention of its top management," the Essen-based steel-to-elevators group said in a statement. ThyssenKrupp is competing with a Japanese consortium and French state-owned naval giant DCNS for the contract.

03 Mar 2015

ThyssenKrupp Says Submarines Part of Growth Story

Germany's Thyssenkrupp sees its submarine business as making an important contribution to its growth targets, the head of its Industrial Solutions business area said on Tuesday. "The submarine business is part of our growth story," Hans Christoph Atzpodien told journalists at a briefing, responding to questions about whether the unit was a good fit in the steel-to-elevators industrial group. Atzpodien said his business area - which ranges from plant engineering to naval vessel building - aimed to reach its sales target of 8 billion euros ($8.95 billion) roughly by the end of the decade. He added that Industrial Solutions' operating profit margin target of 6-7 percent…

31 Mar 2014

GE Gas Turbine Powers German Navy Frigate

Image: GE

GE Marine reports that the German Navy’s Baden-Württemberg(F125-class) frigatewas christened in December 2013, powered by a GE LM2500 gas turbine-based propulsion system. The christening ceremony was held at ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems in Hamburg, Germany. According Dr. MTU Friedrichshafen, a GE Marine System Supplier, provided the ship’s propulsion module, which includes one LM2500 gas turbine, two electric motors and four diesel generator-sets in a combined diesel-electric and gas turbine (CODLAG) propulsion arrangement.