{"id":239,"date":"2026-02-06T05:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T05:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/239\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T05:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T05:20:08","slug":"icebreaker-to-start-in-tallinn-next-week-as-gulf-of-finland-freezes-over-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/239\/","title":{"rendered":"Icebreaker to start in Tallinn next week as Gulf of Finland freezes over | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Icebreaking operations will begin around Tallinn February 11, bringing temporary rules for ships entering or leaving Kopli, Tallinn and Muuga bays.<\/p>\n<p>The Transport Administration said worsening ice conditions have made icebreaking necessary in Tallinn in addition to the ports in P\u00e4rnu, Sillam\u00e4e and Kunda.<\/p>\n<p>Director general Priit Sauk set February 11 as the start date for the operations around the capital.<\/p>\n<p>The state-chartered icebreaker vessel MSV Botnica, owned by TS Shipping, will provide icebreaking services in the region.<\/p>\n<p>The Botnica has already been operating this winter at the ports of Sillam\u00e4e and Kunda.<\/p>\n<p>Under temporary restrictions in place from next week, ships entering or leaving Tallinn-area ports must have an ice class of a least 1C under the Lloyd&#8217;s Register or equivalent and main engine power of no less than 1,600 kilowatts (kW).<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Follow ERR News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ERRNews\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/errnews\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">X<\/a> and never miss an update!<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Icebreaking operations will begin around Tallinn February 11, bringing temporary rules for ships entering or leaving Kopli, Tallinn&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[299,167,300,166,302,301],"class_list":{"0":"post-239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tallinn","8":"tag-botnica","9":"tag-estonia","10":"tag-icebreaking","11":"tag-tallinn","12":"tag-transport-administration","13":"tag-winter"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}