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6: The Marine Operations: Maintenance Zone

5. YOKOHAMA requirements for positioning and burial
capability in the submarine cable
ZONE installation market and owned and
operated by SBSS and based in
YOKOHAMA Zone Shanghai, China.

Maintenance  CS KOKUSAI (KOL); installs domestic and
Agreement international optical submarine cables
using technologies based on years of
experience and a great deal of practical
OWNERSHIP achievement. Equipped with MARCAS-IV
ROV.
The Yokohama Zone has been one of
the major cable maintenance zones in  CS FU AN based in Shanghai, China this
the Asia-Pacific region. In 1997, the ship has been converted to a cable lay and
maintenance is now being provided by multi-purpose offshore and subsea
the three ship operators, namely, KCS in operations vessel, specializing in telecoms
Yokohama, japan, KTS in Geoje, Korea cable repair and maintenance tasks.
and SBSS in Wujing, China.
It was reformed and developed having ZONE RANGE
two ships standby throughout the years
with the creation of "The Agreement for • Northern Asia and Northwest
the Maintenance of Pacific Ocean Cable
Systems in the Yokohama Zone" and region of the Pacific.
was supplemented with the "Yokohama
Zone ROV Agreement" in 2001.

CABLESHIP
• C.S. SEGERO - Korea Telco (KT)
submarine conducts laying and
installation of submarine fibre optic
communication cables by utilizing its
own multi-purpose vessel, T-800 ROVs
(Remotely Operated Vehicle), and
ploughs which are workable even in
deep sea areas.
• CS FU HAI- has been specifically The Yokohama Zone
designed to meet the increasing

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