Taiwan has drawn up a blacklist of 52 Chinese-owned ships that use flags of convenience, which it will track and proactively ...

A senior coast guard official told AFP that Shunxing39's automatic identification system signal, which is used to broadcast a vessel's location, was now turned off. "It is illegal, but it has left our ...

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Tracking data revealed the Shunxing39 cargo vessel had dropped its anchor around the rupture site near the port of Keelung, according to Taiwan’s coast guard. Chinese-owned vessels have ...

Tracking data revealed the Shunxing39 cargo vessel had dropped its anchor around the rupture site near the port of Keelung, according to Taiwan’s coast guard. Chinese-owned vessels have previously ...

Taiwan's coast guard said the Cameroon-flagged, Chinese-owned Shunxing39 cargo ship was suspected of damaging a subsea telecoms cable - Copyright AFP JUNG YEON-JE ...

Taiwan telecoms operator Chunghwa Telecom and the Taiwan Coast Guard said on Saturday that the cargo vessel Shunxing39 was believed to have caused damage to a communications cable — close to the ...

As an island, Taiwan is particularly vulnerable to submarine cable disruption. The country’s government claims that ‘accidental’ submarine cable cuts are part of China’s ‘Grey Zone activities’ in the ...

On Jan. 3, Taiwan reported the Chinese-owned vessel “Shunxing39” cut an undersea communications cable off its north coast.

The Cameroon-flagged Shunxing39 was intercepted by Taiwan’s coast guard on Jan 3 after Chunghwa Telecom reported damage to a subsea cable that is part of the Trans-Pacific Express Cable System.