Chinese Ship Suspected Of Damaging Subsea Cable Off Taiwan May Have Used 2 AIS Devices

Per Taiwan’s Coast Guard, the Chinese-owned vessel suspected of having damaged a subsea cable off Taiwan’s northern coast was using 2 different AIS transponders.

It happened on Friday around 1240 hours when Chungwha Telecom informed Taiwan’s Coast Guard Administration ( CGA) that a subsea communications cable was severed off the Keelung coast.

The cable was a part of the Trans-Pacific Express, a high-speed fibre optic cable connecting China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea and the U.S.

A Taiwan coast guard patrol boat intercepted the freighter Xing Shun 39 at 1700