11/3/21 โ The Marine division of Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) announced that it recently acquired two vesselsโthe Ile de Molรจne and the Ile dโYeuโas part of its strategy to modernize and expand installation capacities for the growing submarine telecommunications market.
A press release said that the two vessels joined the ASN fleet respectively on May 7, 2021, for the Ile de Molรจne and on June 17, 2021, for the Ile dโYeu. Both vessels will now go through a heavy engineering and upgrade program. The Ile de Molรจne will be assigned to the maintenance of customer telecommunications cables in the Atlantic and North Sea. The vessel is expected to start operating in the first half of 2022. Ile dโYeu will join the installation fleet at the end of 2022, and be installed with transoceanic telecom systems. The vessels specifications are as follows: the Ile dโYeu is 147 m long, and has 4,375 net tonnage and 13,520 gross tonnage. The Ile de Molรจne is 98 m long, and has 2,080 net tonnage and 5,729 gross tonnage.
