Šventoji (Samogitian: Švėntuojė; Latvian: Sventāja) is a resort town on the coast of the Baltic Sea in Lithuania.

[1] After the territorial transfer, the town became crucially important for Lithuania as one of its few points of access to the sea.

The sea port began developing again: two piers were constructed, but they were frequently covered in sand.

According to Andrius Šemeškevičius who is the chief technology officer for Telia Lietuva, Telia has three undersea cables between Sweden and Lithuania which means that the internet bandwidth was reduced by one-third due to the incident: however, the connection was restored to users after bypassing the fault.

[4][5][6][7][8][a][b] Following the damage to undersea cables, Royal Danish Navy vessels detained the Yi Peng 3.