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 ...

A team of engineers from Lishui University, located in the coastal Zhejiang province in China, applied for a patent for a ...

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 ...

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

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The Cameroon-flagged Shunxing39 was intercepted by Taiwan's coast guard on Friday after Chunghwa Telecom reported damage to a subsea cable that is part of the Trans-Pacific Express Cable System.

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 ...

After several submarine cable failures in the Baltic Sea, Taiwan has now been hit. The island state suspects a freighter that has already left its waters.

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 ...