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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. Western ...
The damage to the cables, which European officials said appeared deliberate, highlights just how vulnerable these critical undersea lines are. Yi Peng 3, a Chinese-flagged cargo ship that had ...
A Chinese ship was seen near severed Baltic Sea internet cables, the FT reported. Germany's defense minister said the incidents were likely to have been "caused by sabotage." An unnamed source ...
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 ...
BEIJING (Reuters) -China has provided information and documents to a joint investigation into two severed Baltic Sea undersea cables, and has invited Germany, Sweden, Finland and Denmark to ...
EE-S1 is a submarine communications cable between Sweden and Estonia. The cable is 240 km in length and it has three landing points – Kärdla (Estonia), Tallinn (Estonia) and Stavsnäs (Sweden). It became operational in June 1995. [1] [2] EE-S1 is owned by the Swedish pension fund AP-fonderna through its ownership in Arelion.
A file photo shows a fiber optic cable being pulled ashore by a cable-laying ship in the Baltic Sea, in Sassnitz, Germany, Nov. 29, 2023. / Credit: Stefan Sauer/picture alliance/Getty
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.