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Yi Peng 3, a Chinese-registered cargo ship, was traveling from Russia to Egypt when it passed the two cables at around the same time each was cut on Sunday and Monday, according to Marine Traffic ...
The 1884 Convention for the Protection of Submarine Telegraph Cables was the first international compact to deal with underwater cables. [8] It proscribes breakage or damage of such cables — except by belligerents engaged in open war — and permits the naval forces of state parties to engage in certain enforcement actions against suspected offenders.
On Wednesday, interest was focused on a Chinese-flagged cargo ship called the Yi Peng 3, which data provided by the maritime tracking service Vessel Finder showed to have been in the area around ...
A Chinese cargo ship is under investigation related to severed data cables in the Baltic Sea. A probe found that the vessel steamed ahead while dragging its anchor for more than 100 miles.
On 17–18 November 2024, [1] two submarine telecommunication cables, the BCS East-West Interlink and C-Lion1 fibre-optic cables were disrupted in the Baltic Sea.The incidents involving both cables occurred in close proximity of each other and near-simultaneously which prompted accusations from European government officials and NATO member states of hybrid warfare and sabotage as the cause of ...
The Yi Peng 3 left the port of Ust-Luga, Russia, on 15 November with a load of fertilizer, [3] a week prior to the cables being damaged. The ship came under investigation for possibly cutting through the submarine cable that linked Sweden and Lithuania, and within twenty-four hours also severing the cable between Finland and Germany, which is the only cable linking the two countries.
Undersea cables are a symbol of the interconnectedness that defines the modern world. Protecting them is not just a matter of national security but of preserving the stability of the global system.
The incident called into doubt the safety of the undersea portion of the Internet cable system. [2] In late February, there was another outage, this time affecting a fiber optic connection between Singapore and Jakarta. [3] On December 19, FLAG FEA, GO-1, SEA-ME-WE 3, and SEA-ME-WE 4 were all cut. [4] [5] [6]