After Cable Break: Ship Escorted from Finland
The ship Fitburg, which was seized by Finnish police last week, will be escorted out of Finland into international waters on Monday, according to the National Bureau of Investigation.
The ship Fitburg in the port of Kyrkslätt in Finland on 1 January.
‘The Finnish and Estonian police have completed their work on board the ship, and therefore the seizure can be lifted,’ they write in a press release.
One member of the crew has been arrested. Other crew members have been banned from travelling.
On New Year’s Eve, damage was discovered on a cable between Helsinki and Tallinn. The damage occurred in Estonia’s economic zone.
The 132-metre-long cargo ship was en route from St. Petersburg in Russia to Haifa in Israel when it was stopped by border guards and taken to port in Finland.
The ship is believed to have dragged its anchor for tens of kilometres in the Gulf of Finland between Finland and Estonia.
The incident is being investigated as suspected gross damage, suspected attempted gross damage and suspected gross disruption of postal and telecommunications traffic.
