Visit to the Maritime Safety Center (MSZ) in Cuxhaven

Visit to the Maritime Security Center (MSZ) in Cuxhaven yesterday:

Good expert talks about how various maritime signals and data (e.g. the radio system "Automatic Identification System" or satellite radar) can be integrated and evaluated in a digital situation map and how artificial intelligence can help to detect anomalies and changes - for example, to effectively protect critical infrastructures at sea above and below water.

Background: At the latest since the blowing up of the Nordstream pipeline, the protection of critical infrastructures under and above water has been in the focus of the German security authorities and the German Navy. The demand today is that strategically important infrastructures at sea, such as pipelines, gas and oil platforms, and power and energy cables, must be better protected. The Inspector of the German Navy, Jan Christian Kaack, therefore recently called for civilian and military data sources to be brought together quickly.

Stefan Thimm of the Bundesverband der Windparkbetreiber Offshore e.V. (German Offshore Wind Farm Operators Association) also calls for urgent action:

"The German government must now take measures to effectively protect offshore energy infrastructure from espionage and sabotage by the Russian Federation or other actors."