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Finland Demands Investigators on Vessel That Broke Gas Pipeline

- Hong Kong-flagged NewNew Polar Bear is sailing toward China
- Ship’s anchor damaged Finland-Estonia gas pipeline in October

Finnish officials at the National Bureau of Investigation.The screen shows the 'Newnew Polar Bear', in October.Source: AFP/Getty Images

Finland will demand its investigators be allowed on board the NewNew Polar Bear, a Hong Kong-flagged vessel whose anchor ripped up a subsea gas pipeline near Finnish waters in October, President Sauli Niinisto said.

It remains unclear whether the ship dragged its anchor for hundreds of kilometers “intentionally or as a result of extremely poor seamanship,” he told public broadcaster YLE TV1 in an interview Saturday.

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