Subsea Cable

Rotterdam Offshore Group (ROG) based in the Waalhaven, Rotterdam, recently completed the conversion of the MPV (Multi Purpose Vessel) Ndeavor of Boskalis. The vessel was built in 2013 and is 99m in length with a beam of 30m, her gross tonnage is 7413T.

Korea’s SK Telecom has selected a Coriant submarine solution to extend 100G connectivity to Ulleungdo Island. The Coriant solution, based on the industry-leading Coriant® hiT 7300 Multi-Haul Transport Platform and Coriant® Transport Network Management System (TNMS), will enable SK Telecom to enhance delivery of mobile broadband services on Ulleungdo Island, which lies off the east coast of Korea.

A recently published study of the 290 km-long Basslink power cable shows that its impact on the seabed and associated organisms is "transient and minor."

KVH Industries, Inc., has announced that Netherlands-based Vroon has extended its contract for KVH’s maritime satellite communications solution, choosing the mini-VSAT Broadband network for connectivity services onboard more than 140 Vroon vessels.

The SEA-ME-WE 5 Consortium announced the completion of the 20,000-kilometer subsea cable infrastructure developed by a 16-nation consortium. This submarine cable system won the Project of the Year – Subsea award at the Global Carrier Awards in Paris in November 2016 for its technological and managerial excellence.

Ooredoo Maldives and Huawei Marine have announced the inauguration of Ooredoo’s Nationwide Submarine Cable, an important investment by Ooredoo Maldives to strengthen its networks, as part of its commitment to power a Digital Maldives. Azleen Ahmed, Home Minister of Maldives, Wang Fukang, Chinese Ambassador to Maldives and more than 200 guests attended the event.

VBMS, a subsidiary of Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V., has been awarded the Borssele Alpha contract in consortium with NKT Cables by TenneT for the installation of two export cables that will connect the Borssele offshore wind farms 1 and 2 to TenneT’s onshore grid in the Netherlands.

SpeedCast International Limited and Axxess Marine are joining forces to revolutionize the way superyacht customers manage their data usage through SpeedCast’s reliable VSAT communications solution.

Constructing a telecommunications cable between Europe and Asia via the North-East Passage would be politically and technologically feasible, says a report presented to Finland's Minister of Transport and Communications Anne Berner by Paavo Lipponen and Reijo Svento. If the project was carried out, the cable would significantly speed up telecommunications between Europe and Asia and respond to the increasing capacity needs. It would also benefit the national economies in Europe, Russia and Asia.

VBMS recently executed the first export cable shore landing for the Galloper Offshore Wind Farm utilizing its newly invented method for lowering the cable onto the seabed without the use of divers, wet riggers or support vessels. By using a remotely controlled progressive buoyancy release system, VBMS is able to increase safety and efficiency by eliminating time-consuming interfaces.

IOX Cable Ltd, a subsidiary of Indoi Ltd, has signed a MOU with Mauritius Telecom to build a state of the art submarine cable system, known as the Indian Ocean Exchange (IOX) Cable System.

Huawei Marine Networks Co. Ltd. has successfully delivered the Avassa submarine cable system. This will be the 10th submarine cable project that Huawei Marine has been involved with in Africa.