How the world ocean is becoming a battlegroundThe degradation of the international system of checks and balances, and the transition from ...

The Yi Peng 3 and the Eagle S are both suspected Russian ghost ships which have become a pivotal tool in Moscow continuing oil exports in defiance of Western sanctions.

NATO vessels surrounded the Yi Peng 31 but the vessel raced to international waters where internal law prevents local authorities from boarding the ship. A month-long stand off ensued.

The Yi Peng 3 sailed over both the C-Lion1 Helsinki-Rostock cable and the BCS East-West link cable between Lithuania and Sweden around the time they were cut. There have been several notable subsea ...

The Yi Peng 3 sailed over both the C-Lion1 Helsinki-Rostock cable and the BCS East-West link cable between Lithuania and Sweden around the time they were cut.

Tensions have mounted around the Baltic Sea since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and after Finland and Sweden joined Nato, with a string of incidents involving damage to undersea cables ...

The SHK's report stated that the vessel, the Yi Peng 3, severed the two telecommunications cables with its anchor, which it dragged off Sweden's southeastern coast for 1 1/2 days and 180 nautical ...

The Yi Peng 3 is a case in point. Despite docking between Sweden and Denmark, Beijing refused to allow local authorities to conduct a full investigation of the vessel. Back on the patrol vessel off ...

Also, in December, Sweden asked China to cooperate with an investigation into two telecommunication cables being severed in Swedish waters after suspicions were directed at the Yi Peng 3 freighter ...

On Dec.19, China allowed representatives from Germany, Sweden, Finland and Denmark to board the Yi Peng 3, along with Chinese investigators, while the ship was anchored in a Danish shipping lane.

In November 2024, the Yi Peng 3 was accused of severing two submarine cables in the Baltic Sea, one of which linked Germany and Finland and the other running between Lithuania and Sweden.

Another Chinese-owned ship, the Yi Peng 3, was stopped, and later boarded, in international waters near Denmark and Sweden, amid suspicions that it had dragged its anchor and cut two telecom cables.