With 150 years of experience, France Telecom Marine, a subsidiary of the French telecommunications operator , is a world leader in the maintenance and cable-laying of fiber optic submarine cables in an extremely competitive market.

Our fleet is one of the most active in the world. France Telecom Marine cableships cover every stage of system construction, from route surveys and cable burying, to post-burying and maintenance.

France Telecom Marine cableships operate on all the world’s seas. Our vessels, the C/S Léon Thévenin and Raymond Croze are equipped with sophisticated remotely-operated vehicles, designed by SIMEC, wholly owned by France Telecom Marine. The C/S Chamarel , operated by France Telecom Marine subsidiary, Chamarel Marine Services, based in Cape Town (South Africa) maintains the 20,000-km-long SAT 3/Safe system between the waters off Dakar (Senegal) and Diego Garcia.

France Telecom Marine own in-house teams of experts, engineers and crews, plus training programs, studies qualifying and proven methods. This makes France Telecom Marine one of the only cableship operators with complete control over every aspect of submarine cables.

France Telecom Marine is recognized for its expertise, efficiency and quality around the globe at the time of prestigious international contracts for major submarine systems. .

Our track record confirms our claims with 124,000 km fiberoptic submarine cables laid and more than 410 maintenance operations on optical fibre systems.