A Bulgarian shipping company on Monday denied that one of its ships had intentionally damaged an underwater fiber optic cable connecting Latvia and the Swedish island of Gotland.

SOFIA - The Bulgarian company BMF, which owns the ship Vezhen arrested by Swedish authorities for damaging an underwater cable, has denied suspicions of sabotage, blaming bad sea weather. On Sunday, Swedish authorities detained the Maltese-flagged ship Vezhen,

Swedish authorities have detained the Bulgarian ship "Vezhen," which is suspected of damaging an optical cable on the Baltic Sea floor. The ship, with a crew of eight Bulgarian officers and nine Myanmar sailors,

Sofia, Bulgaria – A Bulgarian shipping company ... after the ship was detained in the Baltic Sea. He added that the automatic ship identification system clearly showed that the Vezhen passed ...

Kalchev’s statement followed the announcement that Swedish prosecutors had launched a preliminary investigation on suspicion of sabotage, after the ship was detained in the Baltic Sea.

NATO is deploying eyes in the sky and on the Baltic Sea to protect cables and pipelines that stitch together the nine countries with shores on Baltic waters.

Amsterdam has long been regarded as the best place in the world to see tulips, which blossom in a kaleidoscope of blooms across the Netherlands capital each spring. But as the ‘Venice of the North’ pushes back against an influx of tourists (cruise ships were banned from the city centre in 2023),

Swedish authorities boarded a Maltese-flagged ship seized in connection with the latest breach of cables running along the bottom of the Baltic Sea to begin an investigation into the matter, the country's security police said on Monday.

SOFIA, January 27. /TASS/. The Bulgarian vessel Vezhen is suspected of damaging the communication cable between Sweden and Latvia in the Baltic Sea, Aleksandar Kalchev, executive director of the state-owned company Bulgarian Marine Fleet, reported after the detention of the Malta-flagged ship.

NATO is ratcheting up its guard against suspected attempts to sabotage underwater energy and data cables and pipelines that crisscross the Baltic Sea.

The reason for his statement was the information from the Swedish Prosecutor's Office that a preliminary investigation has been launched on suspicion of “sabotage“ and has ordered the detention of a ship in the Baltic Sea, suspected of damaging an ...