A Chinese-owned cargo ship suspected of damaging a subsea telecoms cable off Taiwan has stopped transmitting its location on the high seas, Taiwan's coast ...

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has been damaged by a Cameroon-flagged freighter named Shunxing39. However, although the ship is registered in the West African country, Taiwanese officials say that the cargo ship is owned by Jie ...

Tracking data revealed the Shunxing39 cargo vessel had dropped its anchor around the rupture site near the port of Keelung, according to Taiwan’s coast guard. Chinese-owned vessels have ...

Taiwan telecoms operator Chunghwa Telecom and the Taiwan Coast Guard said on Saturday that the cargo vessel Shunxing39 was believed to have caused damage to a communications cable — close to the ...

Tracking data revealed the Shunxing39 cargo vessel had dropped its anchor around the rupture site near the port of Keelung, according to Taiwan’s coast guard. Chinese-owned vessels have previously ...

The latest cable damage incident, reported during the first week of January, involved the Chinese freighter Shunxing39 cutting through the Trans-Pacific Express Cable System that directly connects ...

As an island, Taiwan is particularly vulnerable to submarine cable disruption. The country’s government claims that ...

On Jan. 3, Taiwan reported the Chinese-owned vessel “Shunxing39” cut an undersea communications cable off its north coast.