HELSINKI (Reuters) – Finland’s public transport company mentioned on Wednesday that an oil tanker suspected of damaging undersea cables within the Baltic Sea has been discovered to have severe deficiencies and won’t be allowed to function till repairs have been made.
Baltic Sea nations are on excessive alert following a string of energy cable, telecom hyperlink and gasoline pipeline outages since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022. The NATO navy alliance has mentioned it’ll increase its presence within the area.
Finnish police seized the Eagle S tanker carrying Russian oil on Dec. 26 and mentioned they suspected that the vessel had broken the Finnish-Estonian Estlink 2 energy line and 4 telecoms cables by dragging its anchor throughout the seabed.
Whereas the police investigation is ongoing, Finnish authorities additionally checked the vessel’s situation in a port state inspection that was concluded on Wednesday.
“Correcting the deficiencies would require restore help from exterior the vessel and can take time,” Director of Maritime Affairs Sanna Sonninen at Finnish Transport and Communications Company Traficom mentioned in a press release.
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's Council of Financial Advisers Chair…
The homeowners of New Look, the excessive avenue vogue chain, are ploughing £30m of recent…
Elon Musk has referred to as studies that he'll go away his authorities position within…
For many years, commerce and commerce coverage has been an financial and political backwater -…
President Trump on Wednesday laid out his long-awaited plans to slap reciprocal tariffs on nations…
Donald Trump has introduced a ten% commerce tariff on all imports from the UK -…