News Danish Navy tails Chinese ship suspected in European undersea cable sabotage — Sweden’s Defense Ministry put freighter at the time and place of the...

[Admin]

The Danish Navy is pursuing a ship that is suspected to be involved with the recent cutting of undersea cables between Finland, Sweden, and Central Europe.

Danish Navy tails Chinese ship suspected in European undersea cable sabotage — Sweden’s Defense Ministry put freighter at the time and place of the... : Read more

 

[AngelusF]

Llithuania also shares a border with Russian territory

 

[ex_bubblehead]

A warning to all. Politics are banned in the discussion threads. If anyone dares go there the consequences will be severe.

 

[pug_s]

I think there's some misleading things in this article. 1) This is pure speculation at this point so we shouldn't make assumptions that the Chinese are the culprits. 2)The picture in the article is the HDMS Hvidbjørnen (F360), not the Chinese cargo ship which typically looks like this. 3) The ship in question was made in China doesn't mean that the ship is manned by a Chinese crew here.

 

[gg83]

Seems a little sus to me.

 

[EzzyB]

I think there's some misleading things in this article. 1) This is pure speculation at this point so we shouldn't make assumptions that the Chinese are the culprits. 2)The picture in the article is the HDMS Hvidbjørnen (F360), not the Chinese cargo ship which typically looks like this. 3) The ship in question was made in China doesn't mean that the ship is manned by a Chinese crew here.

The key here is not where the ship was manufactured, but where it's flagged. It is extremely common for carriers to use what is called a Flag of Convenience. This is done to register ships in a country that has more relaxed regulations than it's home country. There are, for instance, very few US flagged commercial carriers because that ship would be subject to US safety and labor laws.

I'm not sure if it's at all common to use China as a Flag of Convenience, but it's possible the ship is owned and operated by a non-Chinese entity.

 

[GreyOmega4k]

I think there's some misleading things in this article. [...] 3) The ship in question was made in China doesn't mean that the ship is manned by a Chinese crew here.

Chinese commercial ships are typically predominantly crewed by non-Chinese with Chinese overseers in charge. As they can underpay and overwork non-Chinese workers on the ships. In this case the ship is owned by Ningbo Yipeng Shipping which is based near the Chinese port city of Ningbo. VesselFinder has the ship as being renamed and Chinese flagged at least as far back as Nov 2016.

 

[Co BIY]

Other reporting explained that the ship had a Russian captain, had left a Russian port and was present at two places seperate places where cables were cut.

 

[ex_bubblehead]

As we still have a rather large contingent of users that think that they can flout the rules as they wish this thread is now closed. Thank you once again to those that actually follow the rules and stayed on topic.