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Offshore wind farms along Germany's northern coast are being called on to install radar systems to improve monitoring of ships and drones
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The move was made by the country's federal maritime authority as part of efforts to step up security amid safety concerns in European waters
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This is why Germany's wind farm operators in the North and Baltic Sea have been asked to equip suitable structures with state-of-the-art radar equipment to keep tabs on activity in these areas
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The collected data from these devices will then be delivered to officials who plan
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to use it for securing key transportation routes. A tanker was recently spotted a drift in German
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waters, which the European Union believes to be part of Russia's shadow fleet, a group of vessels
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employed by Moscow to covertly circumvent oil sanctions against the country. Elsewhere in Europe
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other vessels suspected to be part of the shadow fleet have been operating with their navigation
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system switched off or spoofing their location data, attempting to go undetected by authorities
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A practice, Germany hopes radar-equipped offshore wind turbines will help combat. For Stradero News, I'm Jack Almer
