Subsea Cable

Prysmian receives binding offer from Carlisle Companies Incorporated for the acquisition of the business of Draka Fileca SAS

SubCableWorld (SCW), a leading provider of news and market intelligence for the submarine cable industry, and the Business Network for Offshore Wind (The Network), a non-profit organization dedicated to establishing an offshore wind supply chain in the United States, has announced the dates for the first conference to specifically address the cable-related supply chain challenges for the offshore wind industry in the United States.

On 15 October 2019, Nexans hosted the grand block ceremony for their new cable installation vessel, the ‘Nexans Aurora’. The vessel will be completed at Ulstein Verft in Norway.

Prysmian Group, a world leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry, in collaboration with its innovation hub Corporate Hangar, is poised to launch Alesea, an IoT solution that provides virtual assistance for cable drum management.

MainOne has finally landed its submarine cable in Grand Bassam, Cote D’Iviore, which is the final leg of the ongoing expansion to reach Senegal and Cote D’Ivoire.

Ocean Specialists Inc. (OSI) attended and moderated another fascinating Submarine Networks World (SNW) in Singapore, held at the Suntec Convention and Exhibition center the 16^th through the 19^th of September. Tony Mosley, Director of Business Development at OSI, moderated a panel on Innovative technologies deployed in Disaster Prevention and Management, with the CEO of Avaroa Cables Dr. Ranulf Scarborough, CEO of PC1 Takahiro Sumimoto, and Terrance Fong, Partner at ERM.

Seaborn Networks, (“Seaborn”), a leading independent developer/owner/operator of submarine fiber optic cable systems, and Latin American managed cloud services and datacenter company EdgeUno announces an expansion of their partnership with the launch of Latin American managed cloud and datacenter services.

NKT has successfully completed the Caithness-Moray turnkey project of a 320 kV high-voltage direct current (HVDC) XLPE off- and onshore power cable system covering a total transmission length of 160 km. The link has been in commercial operation since end-2018.

Southern Cross Cable Network (SCCN) has entered the construction phase for its planned NEXT submarine cable network, and the leading international telecommunications firm, Pioneer Consulting, will continue to provide support throughout the implementation period.

Prysmian Group has achieved an important milestone in its PowerLink Cable Solutions strategy, which aims to provide comprehensive management solutions for submarine and land cable systems.

Prysmian Group has successfully completed the submarine laying operations for the Evia, Andros and Tinos islands interconnections. The Group developed, supplied and installed the first non-metallic armored cable, whose armor has been designed with a composite material based on High Modulus Synthetic Fibres, which shape the new generation of cable technology.

Infinera announces that OTEGLOBE deployed Infinera’s industry-leading fourth-generation Infinite Capacity Engine (ICE4) technology to double the capacity on its international subsea network on the subsea links between Greece and Italy that form an essential part of OTEGLOBE’s European network.