Finland seeks $11 million EU funding to improve undersea cable repairs

COPENHAGEN: Finland has applied for 9.55 million euros ($11.25 million) in funding from the European Commission to reinforce its undersea cable repair capacity, the Finnish ministry of transport and ‌communications ⁠said on Thursday.

The ⁠Baltic Sea region has been on high alert for sabotage after a string of outages of power cables, gas pipelines and telecoms fibre, and subsea infrastructure is also subject to technical ⁠malfunction and ‌outages caused by accidents.