Container shipper Neptune Orient Lines says for the four weeks of P4 2010 from 3 April to 30 April, container shipping volumes increased 34% to 212,000 FEU (Forty-foot Equivalent Unit) over the same period last year mainly due to higher volumes carried from the Intra-Asia and Transpacific trade lanes.
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PacNet, SubCom, Google Partner on New Trans-Pacific Cable Line
March 16th, 2010 |
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PacNet (formerly Asia Global Crossing), the largest submarine cable telecommunications company in Asia Pacific, partnered with SubCom, the contracted international supplier of undersea communications systems and services, to do this job. PacNet and SubCom will turn on the power for data flow March 20.
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FRANCISCO Laying down an ocean-crossing fiber optic
data transmission cable is hardly for the faint of heart or body. We’re talking
about months at sea in unpredictable open-ocean conditions to quot;pay
out quot; a 1-inch-thick fiber optic cable capable of transporting billions of
informat…
Google Helps Finance Latest Trans-Pacific Fiber Optic Cable Project
March 16th, 2010 |
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Laying fiber optic data transmission cable across the Pacific Ocean is a costly and risky operation. Not just any company with a seaworthy ship can hope to undertake this sort of operation. It takes specialized ships and companies that have developed the expertise to do it right. PacNet, the largest submarine cable operator in the Far East, and SubCom (formerly Tyco Telecommunications) recently completed the latest trans-Pacific cable deployment project using the Global Sentinel, a 19-year-old purpose-built ship. In March 2010, Global Sentinel was docked on the San Francisco waterfront after spending nine months at sea completing the last phase of the two-year project that will connect overseas data networks and deliver the voice, data, graphics, video and database information needed to serve cities and enterprises along the Pacific Rim.
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