company industry telecommunications founded 1999 1999 headquarters 16 18 rue paul lafargue 92800 puteaux france number of locations 2 marine bases in brest and la seyne sur mer key people raynald leconte ceo services installation and maintenance of submarine telecommunication systems number of employees 250 parent orange s.a. website marine.orange.com orange marine s cable ship ren descartes orange marine formerly france t l com marine is a wholly owned subsidiary of orange s.a. it is a major actor in the laying of new submarine communications cables and the maintenance of existing cables across the world s oceans . the company is active in all areas of these activities including the study survey and the shore ends . orange marine took control of elettra previously owned by telecom italia on october 1 2010 and now operates 6 cable ships i.e. 15 % of the world fleet . orange marine and elettra ceo is raynald leconte chief engineer of mines . contents 1 installation and maintenance activities 2 cable ships fleet 3 key figures 4 see also 5 external links 6 bibliography installation and maintenance activities edit orange marine lays new submarine cables and repairs broken links without any interruption of traffic . orange marine and elettra fleets perform an average of 40 operations a year . orange marine has laid more than 130 000 kilometres of submarine cable in all oceans 15 000 of which were buried with its ploughs . in total cable ships have carried out nearly 300 repairs some of which at a depth of 5000 metres over the last ten years . orange marine has recently completed the laying and maintenance of cables in west africa in senegal cameroon benin angola nigeria and south africa as well as in east africa reunion island madagascar and mauritius asia and indonesia . the company also laid a new cable in the caribbean sea linking u.s. virgin islands the dominican republic and jamaica . cable ships fleet edit the fleet covers all of the world s oceans divided into four regions of operation acma atlantic and northern europe mecma with elettra mediterranean black sea red sea southern hemisphere west south and east africa and the indian ocean . submarine cables laid in the same area are covered by a maintenance agreement . orange marine and elettra own a fleet of 6 cable ship s and a complete range of submarine engines shipping from its marine bases or foreign harbours cable ship c s raymond croze based in la seyne sur mer at the mmb mediterranean marine base performs the repairs on cables in mediterranean sea black sea and red sea c s leon thevenin based in brest at the amb atlantic marine base repairs the cables in the atlantic zone and in northern europe c s chamarel based in cape town south africa operates in the southern hemisphere c s rene descartes is dedicated to the installation of submarine cables on a worldwide range c s certamen works with the raymond croze on cable maintenance in the mediterranean black and red seas.le certamen c s teliri operates laying operations mainly around the mediterranean basin . elettra operates two cable ships the certamen and the teliri under the italian flag and owns a cable depot in catania in order to protect watch and repair intercontinental damaged links orange marine through its subsidiary simec designs manufactures and operates submarine vehicles rov and ploughs used to carry out assignments the hector rov remotely operated vehicle which is remotely controlled from the ship via its umbilical cable can lift the cable hold it and cut it using articulated arms elodie the plough is used to bury the cable at significant depths . key figures edit more than 130 000 kilometres of submarine cables laid in all the oceans of which 15 000 buried by the ploughs about 150 repair operations between 2006 and 2010 4 operation zones acma atlantic and northern europe mecma mediterranean black sea red sea southern hemisphere west south and east africa and the indian ocean cable ship chamarel alias vercors laid in the past 40 years 120 000 km of submarine cables on her own see also edit orange s.a. submarine communications cable cable layer external links edit official website orange marine presentation on orange website presentation of orange marine s maintenance activity international cable protection committee icpc newsletter for the whole industry involved in the submarine cable market france telecom orange led lion2 submarine cable system is ready for service fiercetelecom france telecom buys telecom italia undersea cable subsidiary bibliography edit du morse l internet 150 ans de t l communication par c bles sous marins by rene salvador g rard fouchard and yves rolland 2006 isbn 978 295261210 4 v t e orange s.a. subsidiaries armenia belgium botswana cameroon central african republic democratic republic of the congo egypt france guinea guinea bissau ivory coast luxembourg madagascar mali moldova niger poland r union romania slovakia spain tunisia uganda globecast world tv orange business services india orange marine shareholdings bt group 4 % getesa 40 % jordan telecom group 51 % jordan telecom orange jordan korek telecom 20 % mauritius telecom 40 % m ditel 40 % sonatel 42 % telecom vanuatu limited 50 % telkom kenya 70 % products and services libon corporate directors st phane richard chairman and ceo retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title orange marine & oldid 675326824 categories orange s.a.telecommunications companies of france 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 portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable 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