A new subsea cable in the Baltic Sea is being planned
The Amber Cable is set to be 1,500km long, with nine cable landing stations in Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Denmark along these countries’ Baltic Sea coast.
The project is currently in ‘phase one’, which involves conducting studies and stakeholder engagement, according to Amber Cable’s website. Permitting and technical planning have not yet happened.
The cable is also applying for funding from the European Commission’s Connecting Europe Facility.
“The Baltic Sea region continues to grow in both geopolitical relevance and digital infrastructure importance, requiring: increased resilience and redundancy, protection-focused infrastructure design, [and] coordinated regional planning,” reads the website for the cable.
Baltic Sea subsea cables were affected by cuts back in late 2024. Between December 2024 and January 2025, five subsea cables in the region were cut. Authorities initially suspected that the cuts were the work of deliberate sabotage by Russia and China, but subsequent investigations have been inconclusive and have suggested that the cuts may have been accidental.