The Lithuanian Navy has dispatched a mine countermeasures vessel to monitor the NordBalt power link with Sweden in response to an incident in the Baltic Sea when a gas pipeline and a telecommunications cable between Finland and Estonia were damaged.
“The main undersea infrastructure is the NordBalt power cable connecting Sweden and Lithuania. In response to the situation in the Baltic Sea, the Navy has sent its mine countermeasures ship to monitor this cable to ensure that there are no submarine objects nearby,” Lithuanian Navy Commander Giedrius Premeneckas told reporters on Friday.
The monitoring of the Būtingė crude oil terminal has also been reinforced.
The Finish and Estonian natural gas system operators said on October 8 that they had detected an unusual pressure drop in Balticconnector, the natural gas pipeline between the two countries, which led to its shutdown.
On October 10, Helsinki said that a telecom cable between Finland and Estonia had also been damaged and that the leak in the gas pipeline had been likely caused by external activity.
Finnish police on Tuesday said they believed that the pipeline had been damaged by a Chinese container ship’s dislodged anchor.
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