Full speed ahead: With a symbolic machine telegraph, the DLR Institute of Maritime Energy Systems at its Geesthacht site was opened by (top, from left): Norbert Brackmann (Federal Government Coordinator for the Maritime Industry), Anke Kaysser-Pyzalla (Chair of the DLR Executive Board), Oliver Grundei (State Secretary for Science and Culture in the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture of the State of Schleswig-Holstein), (bottom, from left) Thilo Rohlfs (State Secretary in the Ministry of Economics, Transport, Labour, Technology and Tourism of the State of Schleswig-Holstein), Alexander Dyck (Acting Director of the DLR Institute of Maritime Energy Systems), Karsten Lemmer (Member of the DLR Executive Board for Innovation, Transfer and Scientific Infrastructure) and Thorsten Herdan (Head of Department II Energy Policy, German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy).