German Police Board Freighter on Suspicions of Subsea Cable Damage

An aging freighter was stopped and boarded in Kiel after a suspected cable damage incident off Gotland last weekend, according to German authorities – and in a familiar pattern, it was missing its port-side anchor. 

The Antigua-flagged freighter Arne got under way from St. Petersburg on February 19, bound for Seville. She passed Gotland on the evening of February 20-21, and reduced speed by about three knots as she transited past the…