The condition of the global cable maintenance fleet

evidence

Supports the fleet figures used here — a global fleet on the order of sixty cable ships, an average age around twenty years with many vessels past thirty, and a typical repair of about two weeks on site — and the November 2025 Orange Marine newbuild order. V55 verification basis: retrieved in summary, not opened. There is no public register of cable ships; these counts come from trade surveys with differing inclusion criteria and should be treated as orders of magnitude.

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