Once a year, the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH), as the supreme central maritime authority in Germany, takes stock of what is happening in the German waters of the North Sea and Baltic Sea. For almost ten years now, offshore wind energy has also been included. Although the figures for 2019 look promising, dark clouds are lurking on the horizon.
2019 will go down in history as the year in which the issues of climate change and environmental protection finally entered the consciousness of the population. This has not left the BSH unaffected, as President Dr. Karin Kammann-Klippstein points out: "The BSH's tasks have evolved in recent years. As the central maritime ...