Tunisiana and Orange Tunisia announced the signing of a partnership agreement with Interoute, the owner operator of Europe’s largest next generation network, for the commissioning of a submarine cable, called Didon, connecting the city of Kélibia, Tunisia to Interoute’s pan European fiber optic network, via its landing station in Mazara del Vallo, Siciliy, Italy. Didon, [...]
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Prysmian Group, world leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry, has been awarded a new contract worth more than $100 million for the supply and installation of submarine cables for a section of ExxonMobil’s existing offshore operations in the United States. The scope of work involves the replacement of approximately 50 km of [...]
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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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The work for the network connection of the second German offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea, the EnBW Baltic 2, is in progress. The vessel Aura rinsed the first submarine cable section into the Baltic ground, on Saturday, 20 April 2013, for the connection of Baltic 2. A total of sixty kilometers of submarine [...]
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LS Cable & System will be the first cable maker in Korea to introduce the High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) cables to the European market. On April 15 the company announced that it would supply 24.5km of 285kV extra high voltage submarine cables and connectors to Energinet.dk, and 25.7km of 150kV alternating current extra high [...]
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At the 2013 Hanover Fair, ABB is exhibiting a piece of the world’s highest-rated three-core submarine cable. The AC cable will be installed on the “Little Belt”, the strait between the Danish island of Fünen and the Jutland peninsula, which links the North and Baltic Seas. In conjunction with a 420 kilovolts (kV) land cable [...]
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The wreck of a German WWII submarine “U-486″ was found offshore Norway while conducting oil pipeline planning operations, thelocal.de reports. Statoil confirmed, on their Facebook profile, that the company has found the submarine in a 250 meter depth. The submarine left Bergen from the west coast of Norway 9 April 1945, and was torpedoed three [...]
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The wreck of the M24 Japanese midget submarine located in Sydney Harbour has been damaged by vandals, Maritime Professional reports. Vandals entered the protection zone and removed the blades and relics of a key piece of Australian World War II history, The Sydney Morning Herald informed. The wreck, protected under NSW heritage laws, was discovered [...]
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nkt cables has delivered the biggest submarine cable in the world to the Anholt offshore Wind Farm in Denmark. In June 2012, the cable-laying vessels started laying the array cables on the seabed between the substation and the 111 foundations. By 12 September – three weeks ahead of schedule – all cables were in place. [...]
The privately owned communications service provider SEACOM has selected Ciena Corporation’s (NASDAQ: CIEN) 6500 Packet-Optical Platform and OneControl Unified Management System for the upgrade of its submarine network across the Southern and Eastern African coastlines. This falls in line with SEACOM’s focus on driving the development of the African internet and opening the broadband tap [...]
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