The authorities said they believed the vessel may have been involved in damaging the cable, the latest act of apparent sabotage in the Baltic Sea.

TradeWinds already reported about the 5,353-dwt fish carrier Silver Daniel (built 1989) being held in the Norwegian port. Norway acted upon a request by Latvian authorities, which had suspected the Silver Daniel of involvement in the sabotage last week of a fibre-optic cable linking Latvia with Sweden.

Police in Norway said on Friday they had seized a Norwegian-owned ship with a Russian crew over its suspected involvement in damage done to a Baltic Sea cable.Nations around the Baltic Sea have scrambled to bolster their defences since the suspected sabotage of undersea cables in recent months,

The Russian crew and Norway-owned shipping company are cooperating with the authorities, police say, days after Sweden detained another vessel.

Tromso police say they seized and then released a vessel sailing between two Russian ports. Swedish and Latvian investigators are looking into the severing of an underwater cable under the Baltic Sea.

Following damage to a fiber optic cable between Latvia and Sweden, Norwegian authorities have searched a freighter. The shipping company is cooperating.

The Norwegian vessel Silver Dania with a crew consisting entirely of Russian citizens was detained by the Norwegian Coast Guard at the request of Latvia on suspicion of cable damage in the Baltic Sea.

The cargo ship is suspected of being involved in causing serious damage to a fibre cable between Latvia and Sweden. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Police in the Norwegian port of Tromso say they have seized a vessel sailing between two Russian ports. Swedish and Latvian investigators are looking into the severing of an underwater cable under the Baltic Sea.

While co-hosts Latvia and Lithuania progress automatically ... Fixtures resume on Thursday. Norway got their first victory in a Futsal EURO main round or equivalent away to Montenegro, and England ...

The Northwestern Customs Department operates in the Northwestern Federal District excluding the Kaliningrad region and covers ten Russian constituent territories. The area borders Belarus, Norway, Latvia, Finland, and Estonia.