type private industry telecommunications founded 1850 became independent business in 1999 headquarters chelmsford england uk area served global number of employees 150 website globalmarinesystems.com global marine systems is a specialist provider of installation maintenance and repairs of submarine communications cable for the telecommunications oil & gas and deep sea research industries . global marine provides engineering and underwater services in response to the subsea cable installation maintenance and burial requirements of their customers around the world . with a fleet of vessels rovs and specialised subsea trenching and burial equipment global marine offers solutions to the oil & gas telecom and deep sea research sectors . global marine s cable innovator conducting a repair global marine systems . global marine the legacy of cable & wireless marine and british telecom marine was purchased by global crossing in 1999 at which time it received the name it carries today . in 2004 global marine systems was purchased by bridgehouse marine and was completely restructured . in september 2014 global marine was acquired by hc2 . historically the company has a legacy of over 160 years of cable installation stemming from the first telegraph cables laid in the 1850s . citation needed global marine has a worldwide presence with offices in chelmsford uk and singapore ; depots in portland uk ; bermuda ; vancouver canada ; batangas philippines and batam indonesia ; ships stationed around the world to support both installation of new cables and maintenance protection of existing cables ; and joint ventures with china telecom and huawei . 1 since 2002 global marine has become increasingly active in the installation of submarine power cables and gained significant market share in the european offshore renewables market in addition to undertaking a number of large power interconnect projects . the company was responsible for installing the cables connecting the turbines on a host of windfarm projects including blythe one of the first trial farms horns rev 1 the first major commercial windfarm in denmark thornton bank kentish flats and others . to support this business global marine formed a subsidiary in 2011 called global marine energy . the development of the energy business included the opening of a new office in middlesbrough and the construction of a specialist vessel cable enterprise . the subsidiary company was sold to prysmian group the world s largest cable manufacturer at the time of sale in september 2012 . global marine today focuses primarily on supporting the telecoms 2 oil & gas 3 and deep sea research 4 markets with an extraordinary history in delivering subsea projects global marine is in a prime position to offer a wide variety of innovative cabling systems meeting the subsea engineering requirements of companies around the globe . in 2014 global marine received recognition firstly when presented the order of distinction by rospa recognising the 15th consecutive year of outstanding occupational health and safety records and then later in the year receiving the engineering award at the prestigious international business awards in singapore . 5 group historical achievements edit 1988 installed first transatlantic fibre optic submarine cable tat 8 1989 installed first private transatlantic fibre optic submarine cable ptat 1990 installed first transpacific fibre optic submarine cable npc 1992 first to plough unarmoured cable over 1 000 km in one continuous operation between brunei and singapore 1994 first to post lay bury to 2 000 metres pacific rim west 1995 first to bury cable to 10 metres and 4 metres in rock apcn 2003 achieved deepest water ploughing to a depth of 1699m on the svalbard system installed 1 350 km within the arctic circle . 2010 achieved deepest recorded cable burial at port klang in malaysia achieving 14 meters on a power cable connecting to the island of pulau ketam 2014 global marine was awarded the order of distinction by rospa in recognition of the company s 15th consecutive year of outstanding occupational health and safety results . 6 2014 global marine installed the 2014 uninett project in svalbard norway delivering the world s most northerly fibre optic cable system deep within the arctic circle . 7 to date global marine has installed over 300 000 km of subsea cable 23 % of the world s total . citation needed in addition to this global marine with joint venture partners has performed 35 % of maintenance operations on world fibre optic cables . references edit huawei marine joint venture launched . december 2008 . telecoms overview . www.globalmarinesystems.com . oil & gas overview . http www.globalmarinesystems.com . external link in website help deep sea research overview . http www.globalmarinesystems.com . external link in website help meet singapore s trailblazing foreign firms at the international business awards 2014 . singapore business review . july 2014 . global marine systems achieves order of distinction in health and safety awards . 2014 . global marine installs the most northerly fibre optic cable system in the world . november 2014 . external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to global marine systems . globalmarinesystems.com iscpc.org retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title global marine systems & oldid 695458297 categories companies based in chelmsfordcompanies established in 1999engineering companies of the united kingdomhidden categories cs1 errors external linksall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from may 2015commons category with local link same as on wikidata navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity 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