Underwater cables are like the invisible highways of the internet. They stretch across oceans, carrying almost 95% of global ...

A senior coast guard official told AFP that Shunxing39's automatic identification system signal, which is used to broadcast a vessel's location, was now turned off. "It is illegal, but it has left our ...

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 ...

There, the cargo ship Shunxing39, registered under the flag of Cameroon, probably damaged the submarine cable, which is part of the Trans-Pacific Express Cable System.

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Island nation says incident is part of ‘very worrying global trend’ of sabotage amid fears of invasion Taiwan has accused a Chinese-owned ship of severing a critical data cable off its ...

Taiwan's coast guard said the Cameroon-flagged, Chinese-owned Shunxing39 cargo ship was suspected of damaging a subsea telecoms cable - Copyright AFP JUNG YEON-JE ...