The submarine power cable for the new link between the North Sea island of Borkum and the mainland grid is ready for use: Norddeutsche Seekabelwerke GmbH handed it over to EWE NETZ GmbH in Nordenham yesterday. The 25-km-long medium-voltage submarine power cable is currently being loaded onto the work pontoon of the construction company Bohlen [...]
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Statnett, TenneT and KfW have decided to prioritise the development of the NORD.LINK project. The NORD.LINK interconnector will run between Tonstad (Norway) and Wilster (Germany). Project partners Statnett, TenneT and KfW are currently in the developing phase of one 1400 MW electricity interconnector between Germany and Norway with the goal to have it operational by [...]
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Submarine cables are critical infrastructure for the modern world. Seabed access enables a subsea network such as Arctic Fibre to be built and operated to provide essential communications. Douglas Cunningham, Arctic Fibre CEO, emphasized that “The seabed is becoming more crowded. To ensure that ocean-based telecommunications can continue to expand and be effective and economical, [...]
Pacnet announced that it has delivered additional trans-Pacific network capacity between Japan and the United States to NEC BIGLOBE, Ltd. (BIGLOBE) a member of the NEC group and one of Japan’s leading Internet service providers. BIGLOBE partnered with Pacnet to directly connect its data center in Japan and the Any2 Internet Exchange in Los Angeles [...]
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Brazil is to overcome Norway as the world’s largest offshore market in 2015 says analyst Rystad Energy. NCE Subsea cooperates with Brazilian organizations to enhance business opportunities. In a ceremony in São Paulo, NCE Subsea and Federação das Indústrias do Estado de São Paulo (FIESP) – the Federation of Industries of the State of São [...]
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A NASA-sponsored expedition is set to sail to the North Atlantic’s saltiest spot to get a detailed, 3-D picture of how salt content fluctuates in the ocean’s upper layers and how these variations are related to shifts in rainfall patterns around the planet. The research voyage is part of a multi-year mission, dubbed the Salinity [...]
With the recent launch of the Reuben Lasker, a high-tech fisheries survey vessel that will be operated by the… Source: Scripps, August 24, 2012
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Taiwan telecom provider Chunghwa Telecom announced that the first submarine cables linking Taiwan with China have been completed. As AFP reports the cables link China’s city of Xiamen with the Taiwanese Kinmen island, and are due to go into operation on Tuesday. The cable project is a joint venture between Chunghwa Telecom and China’s three [...]
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Seaborn Networks announced that, in response to significant customer demand, its Seabras-‐1 submarine cable will now provide the first-‐ever direct route between the commercial and financial centers of Brazil and the United States. Seabras-‐1’s new landing in the New York metropolitan area will connect directly to the landing in Sao Paulo. Seabras-‐1 will continue to [...]
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According to The Trinidad Express, The Trinidad and Tobago Electricity Commission (T&TEC) is trying to find a solution to its submarine cable failure between Trinidad and Tobago. T&TEC’s General Manager Kelvin Ramsook stated that a public tender was approved for the number two submarine cable. This cable failed once and was repaired, but failed again [...]
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