Prevention of LVRTC sea optical cable damage has cost nearly 500,000 euros / day

The total amount of loss shall include the costs of the cable correction, the costs of the LVRTC and the attracted personnel, and the expenses incurred by the LVRTC in connection with the services of unusual customer.

All of these expenses LVRTC covered the funds available to the company.

The company also informed that in April, the LVRTC started the process of damages with the Bulgarian company Navigation Maritime Bulgares, which owns the Vezhen ship, which caused damage. In the event that the Bulgarian shipping company does not agree to compensate for damages, the LVRTC may go to court. At the same time, the police are still investigating the initiated criminal proceedings.

Girts Ozols, Chairman of the Board of the LVRTC, assessed the loss of losses as proportionate and smaller than originally predicted. « The most important part is the cost of hiring a ship and crew work. The weather, the way the cable was invested in the sea, the specifics of the seabed made the work very difficult, » he stressed.

Oak also pointed out that experts had to disclose how to retrieve the ends of the damaged cable from the clay bed more than 100 meters deep, noting the clay cable for almost 20 years.

It has already been reported that on the early morning of 26 January 2025, the LVRTC underwater optical fiber cable in the Baltic Sea was damaged on the Ventspils-Gotland. The cable has been damaged in Sweden’s economic waters about 130 kilometers from the Latvian coast.

On the night of February 20, the end of the damaged cable in the direction of Gotland was highlighted from the Baltic Sea, while on the evening of February 26, the end of the damaged cable to Ventspils was also highlighted from the sea. LVRTC engineer and sea optical fiber cable repair ship crew completed the crew of the sea optical fiber cable cable on February 28. A new, hundreds of meters long cable connected to the sleeves is placed between the damaged stages.

In connection with the damage to the cable, the Swedish authorities had arrested the Vezhen sailing sailing sailor under the Malta flag.

Bulgarian shipping « Navigation Maritime Bulgares », which owns the ship, denied deliberate cable damage, and the Swedish prosecutor’s office later rejected the possibility of sabotage in cable damage and announced that it released the ship « Vezhen » while admitting that it caused this damage.

Swedish prosecutor Matt Lyungquist explained that cable damage was caused by a combination of adverse circumstances – weather, deficiencies in equipment and lack of shipping.

The Latvian State Police are continuing investigations into criminal proceedings qualified for three articles of the Criminal Law, including harm. Currently, there is no information on the basis for the end of the investigation to terminate or retrain criminal proceedings.

LVRTC is the main operator of the land broadcast network of radio and television programs in the country. The LVRTC manages the state -owned mobile operator « Latvijas Mobilais Telefons » (LMT) parts.