The Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link will consist of almost 100 tunnel segments, each measuring 217 meters long and weighing 73,500 tons, making it one of Europe's largest tunnels

The Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link will be a 11-mile tunnel across the Baltic Sea, connecting Germany and Denmark - and it will be one of the largest infrastructure projects in Europe

An undersea data cable between Latvia and Sweden was damaged early on January 26, the latest in a series of similar incidents in the Baltic Sea in which critical seabed energy and communications lines are believed to have been severed by ships traveling to or from Russian ports.

HPC Hamburg Port Consulting (HPC) has been awarded the contract to manage project coordination and financial oversight for an initiative

Shipping firms may need to pay a fee to use the Baltic Sea, one of the world's busiest shipping routes, in order to cover the high costs of protecting undersea cables, Estonia's defence minister said on Wednesday following a spate of breaches.

Nato countries have stepped up patrols to protect critical underwater infrastructure in the Baltic Sea, which is bordered by eight countries, and other waters. A Royal Navy submarine was ordered to surface last November close to a suspected Russian spy ship which was loitering over undersea infrastructure in UK waters.

Sweden has opened a preliminary investigation into suspected aggravated “sabotage” and ordered the detention of a vessel in the Baltic Sea suspected of damaging an underwater fiber optic cable connecting Latvia and the Swedish island of Gotland earlier that day.