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From the article: "The German hospital ship "Berlin", which has been stationed on the Horn of Africa until now, is on the way to the island of Sumatra. The undersecretary in the foreign ministry, Klaus Scharioth, said in Berlin today that the ship was expected to arrive by the middle of next week"

ESG5 Had just made Guam harbor when they were reassigned, and they are already on site.
It takes two weeks to come from the Horn of Africa?

[Sthitch]

Amazing, a cruise ship covers that distance faster, and they cruise only at night to let the passengers frolic during the day. I am wondering if the Hospital Ship Berlin ran out of coal.

[longjack]

The article said literally, it was expected to arrive in the 'middle of the coming week' [kommende Woche]. I translated it as next week

Maybe it is this week, if the author wrote the story Saturday, for example. It is sometimes hard for me to get the translation of that correct. They would usually say 'this' week or 'next' week, like in English.

I generally would think of "kommende Woche' as what someone would say at the end of one week, referring to the week that starts in a few days.

HTH

longjack