WHERE IN THE WORLD ARE THOSE PESKY CABLESHIPS? BY REBECCA SPENCE
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efore you do anything else today, check out the new online cable map! Why you ask? Simple, we have completely revamped our map to showcase a much larger scope of the data we have worked so hard to collect over the last several years on the Submarine Cable Industry as a whole. I go into much more detail in the online map article on page 10 but it sure does feel like Christmas in July. My personal favorite feature is the ability to track the global cableship fleet in real-time AND to filter to see vessel history over time! Please go check it out for yourself, you’re going to love it. Back to our regularly scheduled programing, the fleet sure has been busy the last two months. Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) increased Figure 1: Ile de Re from 43 to 49 percent of reported activity since May. The Ile de Batz spent the entire analyzed timeframe in the EMEA region accomplishing the installation and landing of 2Africa in Berbera. Accompanied in the region by the
Ile de Sein who landed Equiano in Sesimbra Portugal at the end of May. Austral Asia also saw a drastic increase in activity as it had 18 percent of vessel AIS reported in May, jumping to 38 percent over the last two months. Much of this activity from the Reliance who landed the Oman Australia Cable in Barka Oman at the beginning of May. The Americas has half as much activity dropping to 9 percent from 21 percent and the Indian Ocean region stayed steady at 9 percent. The small decline in activity in the Transpacific of 7 percent to 2 percent was expected as Southern Cross NEXT finished marine installation. Per their most recently announcement, SCN should be in service the week before this issue of SubTel Forum Magazine is published, so keep an eye out for that if it hasn’t happened already.
Figure 2: OMS Cable Vigilence
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