WHERE IN THE WORLD ARE THOSE PESKY CABLESHIPS? BY REBECCA SPENCE
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an the end of 2021 be here already? With the amount of cable laying activity that has been happening in recent weeks, it is no wonder the last few quarter of the year is already flying by. Several systems have completed the wet lay portions of their project and in the final stages of installation as of the beginning of November; among these projects are HAVSIL, Amitié, CrossChannel Fibre, and Converge ICT Domestic Submarine Cable. For CrossChannel Fibre, the first telecommunications fiber to cross the English Channel in 20 years, the IT Intrepid spent some time at the Hexatronic Factory in Hudiksvall, Sweden, seen in Figure 1. Figure 3 breaks down the movement status of the 45 cables SubTel Forum tracks. Of which, 13 percent were enroute to their destination at the time the AIS data was reviewed for this month’s article. Most vessels in that 13 percent were expected to arrive at their destinations within
the following week, only one expecting to take more than a week. Four of the 87 percent of vessels that had reportedly arrived at their destinations have remained in one location for over a month. The Dependable, Telepaatti, Limin Venture, and Antonio Meucci. The Limin Venture can be seen in Figure 2’s
Figure 2: Limin Venture near Batam during the wet plant of BaSICS in the last week of October
g CrossChannel Figure 1: IT Intrepid loadin l, Sweden Fiber cable in Hudiksval
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