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Swedish police have sought to investigate the Chinese bulk carrier Yi Peng 3 in relation to its possible role in the breach of two undersea fiber-optic cables in the Baltic Sea in November. The ...
The Chinese director of a firm whose vessel Taiwan suspects of having damaged an undersea communications cable said on Wednesday there was no evidence the ship was involved, an incident that has ...
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 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.
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 ...
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.
It was the first and, until 2024, only enforcement action taken under the Convention for the Protection of Submarine Telegraph Cables of 1884. Accidental damage to undersea cables by fishing vessels was a common occurrence at the time and a U.S. Navy investigation concluded that Novorossiysk may have unintentionally cut the cables. The Soviet ...
The cables run for thousands of miles under the sea. Chunghwa Telecom, one of the companies that operates the cable, said that the damage didn't cause major disruptions as it was able to divert data.