Tag: Baltic Sea

The North Atlantic Alliance has deployed surface drones in the Baltic Sea as part of the Task Force X program.

Swedish and Finnish police are investigating a suspected case of sabotage of an undersea telecoms cable in the Baltic Sea, and Sweden's coast guard has deployed a vessel to the area where multiple seabed cables have been damaged in recent months.

The Baltic Sea region is on high alert after a string of power cable, telecom link, and gas pipeline outages since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.

Finnish authorities on Thursday seized a ship carrying Russian oil in the Baltic Sea on suspicion it caused the outage of an undersea power cable connecting Finland and Estonia a day earlier, and that it also damaged or broke four internet lines.

Russia is disrupting mobile communications and ship tracking in the Baltic Sea, which could pose a threat to vessels and energy supplies.

Located in northern Europe, the Baltic Sea is an active commercial shipping route and is ringed by nine countries including Russia.

An ambitious underwater road and rail tunnel is currently under construction in Europe that will link Germany and Denmark. Named the Fehmarnbelt tunnel, it will cross an 18-km (roughly 11.2-mile) stretch of the Baltic Sea.

RWE is investigating how artificial reefs at offshore wind farms in the Baltic Sea can affect the marine ecosystem and whether they can create an attractive marine habitat, particularly for blue mussels, algae and fish species.

Van Oord has been contracted by the Spanish energy company Iberdrola for the construction of the German Windanker offshore wind farm.

The parties plan to collaborate regarding logistics operations for the construction and maintenance of future offshore wind farms in the Baltic Sea

Samskip will relocate its UK port of call from Hull to the neighboring Humber port of Immingham.

Over a three-month period, a specially equipped drone will measure the sulphur content in the exhaust plumes of ships transiting the Baltic Sea