The Bergen cargo ship Silver Dania has been detained on suspicion of damaging a fiber-optic cable in the Baltic Sea. The ship belongs to Bergen-based shipowner Tormod Bo Fossmark. The ship is now in the port of Tromsø in the Breivik area.
The ship is traveling between St. Petersburg and Murmansk. All the crew on board is Russian, writes the Norwegian edition of Fiskeribladet, citing local police.
“We passed close to Gotland, a Swedish island near the place where a fiber-optic cable was damaged on January 26, but we did not anchor,” said Tormod Fossmark, head of the Silver Sea shipping company.
Norwegian authorities took us to the port to rule out any involvement on our part, he said.
Latvia announced on January 26 that an undersea communications cable of the Latvian State Radio and Television Center had been damaged. The damage was discovered in Swedish economic waters.
