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The regatta will be held over five competition days. The Sailing World Championship in the J/70 class kicks off on Tuesday (September 17) in Mallorca. 96 teams from 25 nations will compete in the regatta in the Bay of Palma. Two races of around 90 minutes each will be held over five days of competition. The first race will start at 11:30 from the sailing club in Palma. The second race is scheduled for the afternoon, depending on weather conditions and the duration of the first race.

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Another German company from the shipbuilding industry in "distress at sea": W. Bockstiegel Reederei GmbH & Co. KG filed for provisional insolvency at the Aurich District Court (Lower Saxony) on September 9. Attorney Uwe Kuhmann was appointed as provisional insolvency administrator. According to its own information, the shipping company employs 50 people on land and over 1,000 sailors through a separate company.

A new attempt to salvage an oil tanker that has been burning in the Red Sea for two weeks following attacks by Yemen's Houthi rebels has begun, a European Union naval mission said on Saturday. The EU operation "Aspides" released images on Saturday of its ships escorting ships on their way to the Greek-flagged oil tanker "Sounion".

After the partial collapse of Dresden's Carola Bridge, the ships of the "Weiße Flotte" will be able to sail through Dresden's center again from Friday. A new timetable will then apply, adapted to the situation on the Elbe, the company announced on Thursday. The sailing area is therefore divided into two parts: above Dresden in the direction of Pillnitz and Saxon Switzerland, and below the collapse site in the direction of Radebeul, Meißen and Diesbar-Seußlitz.

The Port Adriano marina in the southwest of Mallorca is to become a green energy pilot project. The Swedish company Eco Wave Power Global is responsible for this. The aim is to install a system in the harbor area that generates electricity from wave power.

The luxury liner is currently anchored off the coast of Mallorca. The "Harmony II" was built in 1955 in the Jadranska Linijska Plovidba shipyards in Pula (Croatia) under the name "Mostar" for the famous Yugoslavian shipping company Jadrolinija. It was part of a series of four sister ships and was intended to transport passengers between the various ports on the Dalmatian coast.

A sailing yacht has sunk after a fire on the high seas. On Wednesday night, a service ship from a wind farm reported the yacht drifting around on fire, according to the German Sea Rescue Association (DGzRS). The ship was reportedly around 90 kilometers northwest of Borkum near the German Bight wind farm at the time. The whereabouts of the yacht's crew are unclear.

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