Recently heard a podcast about this. The current law about international waters was made before sea cables became widespread. So it just doesn’t contain anything useful about sabotage acts like this.
The only way to do anything is by suing the country under whose flag the ship is registered at the sea court in Hamburg. But it’s not like the random countries that those ships are registered under would care much. Usually these are small island states that are cheap in terms of taxes, and don’t care much about European cables.
Well, if it is small island statea with lots of ships registeres to them, the EU seizing all ships under that flag until the relevant countries end the shenanigans happening under their flag, would exert a lot of pressure quickly.
It is a terrible system of dodging reslonsibilities like you have pointed out. It should be abolished towards ship registrations fitting the actual commerce of the nations.
It’s just we let international shipping become a tangled mess under US driven deregulation, and as long as it’s just basic worker and human rights of sailors were affected we didn’t give a shit, but now that this Cold War II idiocy is coming, it’s biting us in the ass.
It’s like the whole US ideological system and everything that was influenced by it assumed only corporations and the wealthy would be abusing the lack of sensible regulations, not hostile nation states.
Recently heard a podcast about this. The current law about international waters was made before sea cables became widespread. So it just doesn’t contain anything useful about sabotage acts like this.
The only way to do anything is by suing the country under whose flag the ship is registered at the sea court in Hamburg. But it’s not like the random countries that those ships are registered under would care much. Usually these are small island states that are cheap in terms of taxes, and don’t care much about European cables.
Well, if it is small island statea with lots of ships registeres to them, the EU seizing all ships under that flag until the relevant countries end the shenanigans happening under their flag, would exert a lot of pressure quickly.
It is a terrible system of dodging reslonsibilities like you have pointed out. It should be abolished towards ship registrations fitting the actual commerce of the nations.
It’s just we let international shipping become a tangled mess under US driven deregulation, and as long as it’s just basic worker and human rights of sailors were affected we didn’t give a shit, but now that this Cold War II idiocy is coming, it’s biting us in the ass.
It’s like the whole US ideological system and everything that was influenced by it assumed only corporations and the wealthy would be abusing the lack of sensible regulations, not hostile nation states.
If they lost their ass in fines they might care a little.