Estonia’s navy to protect Baltic Sea power cable

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Estonia’s armed forces have launched a naval operation to protect the Estlink 1 undersea power cable in the Baltic Sea, Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna said on Friday. Finland on Thursday seized a ship on suspicion it caused an outage …

Tanker Eagle S detained for Finland-Estonia power cable damage

Finnish authorities suspected the Eagle S, a tanker registered in the Cook Islands for its involvement in the rupture of the Estlink 2 submarine power transmission cable between Finland and Estonia, official sources said. The electricity transmission cable …

Estonia's finance minister describes lower VAT on food plan as waste of money

"I conveyed this to her during the very first government meeting: she should not deal with something that has already been thoroughly examined, should not waste money, should not make noise and should not raise false hopes. Yet, here she is pursuing …

Tanker from Russia’s “shadow fleet” suspected over Finland—Estonia link failure

A DAMAGED CABLE has been confirmed as the cause of the failure detected in Estlink 2, an electricity transmission link between Finland and Estonia, on Wednesday, report YLE and Helsingin Sanomat. Finnish authorities revealed yesterday at a news conference …

The energy cable connecting Finland to Estonia has broken

Another cable break occurred in the Baltic Sea. “The direct communication between Finland and Estonia was interrupted at 12:26 local time,” the Finnish grid company Fingrid said in a statement. It specifies that the transmission capacity from Finland to …

In brief: Estonia-Finland cable disruption

Three undersea telecom cables connecting Estonia and Finland were damaged on December 25. A ship has been detained and is being held in Finnish waters. ERR News sums up the story below. The 150-kilometer EstLink 2 cable was the first to be reported broken. …

Finland Seizes Ship After Undersea Power Cable to Estonia Is Cut

The Finnish police on Thursday boarded an oil tanker that the authorities said they suspected was involved in damaging vital undersea cables. They suggested the tanker was part of a shadow fleet used by Russia to avoid Western sanctions. The Estlink 2 …

Failures in three more submarine communication cables recorded between Estonia and Finland

On December 27, failures were recorded in three more submarine communication cables between Estonia and Finland. Elisa Eesti AS and CITIC Telecom CPC reported this to the Estonian Department of Consumer Protection and Technical Supervision (TTJA), …

Estonia holds emergency meeting after undersea power cable disruption

TALLINN, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- The Estonian government convened an emergency meeting on Thursday after the Estlink-2 power cable connecting Estonia and Finland along the floor of the Gulf of Finland was damaged the previous day. At a press conference …

Another Baltic Sea incident; undersea power cable linking Finland and Estonia breaks down, sabotage expected