Today Traficom, the Finnish agency for transport and transport communications, has started inspections on the oil tanker Eagle S as the national authority responsible for carrying out the Port State Control activities, i.e. the control of ships foreign nationals calling at a Finnish port as part of operations to ensure that they comply with the provisions of the International Conventions on safety of navigation. The Eagle S is the ship suspected of damage to submarine cables in the Gulf of Finland occurred on Christmas Day ( of 27 December 2024).

Sanna Sonninen, Director General of the Marine Sector at Traficom, specified that these inspections, which constitute a routine procedure, however, they may last several days.

Meanwhile, on Monday in Brussels there was a NATO meeting focused on infrastructure security critique across the Baltic Sea during which It has been decided to strengthen the Alliance's military presence in order to ensure awareness, and deter further accidents.