In a world that craves instant and clear communication, be that for voice calls, the internet, video streaming or business needs, connectivity has never been more important than it is today. The exponential growth in demand for capacity on undersea communication cables has brought with it the need for best in class service providers who can both install and maintain this critical global infrastructure.
SBSS can be trusted with your connectivity needs.
Integrated Services
State-of-the-art Assets
Chinese Expertise
Synergy with
Global Marine Group
Permitting and route survey
Route clearance, Pre-lay grapnel run (PLGR) and surface lay
Shore-end landing and beach works
Pre-laid shore end (PLSE)
Cable and pipeline crossing
Cable testing
Cable ploughing
Trenching and post-lay inspection and burial (PLIB)
Customized protection solutions
Yokohama Zone maintenance service provider since 1997
Shallow water repair capability from 5m water depth
Cable recovery and testing to more than 6,000m water depth
Experienced Universal Joint (UJ) and Universal Quick Joint (UQJ) teams and in-house jointer training school
Wujing cable depot on the Huangpu river with a total storage capacity of 3,841m³
Our fibre optic cable installation footprint covers 40 international submarine communication systems.
We have provided submarine cable maintenance services to the Yokohama Zone since 1997.
In 2017, SBSS installed 6,620km of submarine fibre optic cable for the SEA-US system, which remains as the longest cable installation project in the company’s history.
We have laid cable to a water depth of 9,720m within the Mariana trench for the SEA-US submarine system in 2017 and 9,607m within the Izu Ogasawara trench for the BtoBE S2 in 2020.