Damaged Baltic Sea power cable Estlink 2 seen back in operation late June
Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on May 30, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 23, 2026

Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on May 30, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 23, 2026

The Estlink 2 power cable between Finland and Estonia is expected to resume operations by June 25, ahead of schedule, following repairs from damage caused in December.
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Finnish power grid operator Fingrid said on Friday it expects the Estlink 2 subsea power cable between Finland and Estonia, which was damaged in December, to return to commercial use on June 25, slightly earlier than seen before.
Fingrid, which last month predicted the cable would be back in operation on July 15, said in a statement repair work was progressing faster than expected.
Finnish authorities in December seized a ship carrying Russian oil in the Baltic Sea on suspicion it caused the outage by dragging its anchor across the power cable as well as four internet lines.
(Reporting by Anna Ringstrom; Editing by Tomasz Janowski and Terje Solsvik)
Fingrid expects the Estlink 2 subsea power cable to return to commercial operation by late June.
The damage was suspected to be caused by a ship carrying Russian oil that dragged its anchor across the power cable.
Fingrid reported that the repair work is progressing faster than expected, having previously predicted a July 15 return.
Finnish authorities seized the ship suspected of causing the outage in December.
In addition to the power cable, four internet lines were also affected by the incident.
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