The movement of Russian "shadow fleet" ships in the Baltic Sea must be stopped, Latvian Prime Minister Evika Silina (New Unity) said in an interview with the British broadcaster BBC on Sunday.
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Chinese commercial vessel Yi Peng 3 is suspected of deliberately dragging its anchor on the Baltic seabed for some 160 kilometres, damaging two undersea cables, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Another port has been found for unloading the Russian cargo of ammonium nitrate after the port of Klaipėda refused to admit it. However, it is yet to be decided whether the Maltese-flagged ship herself could be repaired in Klaipėda, says Algis Latakas, head of the Klaipėda State Seaport Authority.
The search for the missing captain of a ship which sank in the Curonian Lagoon in Lithuania earlier this week will continue on Friday.
A detained ship belonging to a Russian company is set to be auctioned off in Lithuania after standing in the port of Klaipeda for the past couple of years.
