Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks manages a number of Private Marine Maintenance Service Agreements in the Asia Pacific area.
Coverage is presently provided by two state-of-the-art cable ships capable of carrying out all aspects of cable maintenance and related services. The vessels are power-full, enabling them to operate in severe adverse weather conditions.
The vessels are up to 150 meters long, deadweight is up to 70000 tonnes and the vessels can proceed with a speed of up to 16 knots. The vessels are fitted with advanced Dynamic Positioning Systems enabling the vessels to maintain station and perform a cable repair in severe weather conditions.
A dedicated jetting Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) with a minimum horsepower between 150kw - 300kw, capable of operating to a maximum depth of 2000 metres is placed on board each vessel.
The capabilities are covering all marine sections from beach manhole to beach manhole and will include shore-end repair/reinstatement, buried sections with 2000m water depth and surface laid abyssal sections.
All spares, including spare cable, a number of cable bodies and jointing kits are stored onboard each of the two vessels, enabling the vessels to leave port within 12 hours notice when receiving a callout.
Presently more than 30,000 km of submarine cable is serviced under the Private Maintenance in the ASIA Pacific area.
Earthquakes and similar underwater activity frequently hit the Asia Pacific Region. Combined with areas of intense fishing activity the region calls for deep-sea as well as shallow water repairs, requiring multi skilled personnel and equipment.
Private Maintenance, Asia Pacific offers the full range of high quality services including vessels, jointers, ROVs for deep burial, 3m grapnels, Spares Management, Chromatic Dispersion Management, Cable Awareness Programs, Shallow Water Repair Plans as well as data management and charting.
