German Police Board Freighter on Suspicions of Subsea Cable Damage

Written By John Manock

Maritime Executive | February 24, 2025

  • An aging freighter was stopped and boarded in Kiel after a suspected cable damage incident, and in a familiar pattern, it was missing its port-side anchor. 

  • The damage did not appear to be severe, as "the disturbance does not affect the functionality of telecommunications connections running in the cable," 

  • Arne was allowed to go after a three-hour inspection, and made an uneventful transit of the Kiel Canal. 

  • Finnish authorities say that it is possible that the CLion cable was damaged earlier, in the Christmas Day anchor-drag incident involving the tanker Eagle S. 

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