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Red Sea Instability Delays Major Subsea Cable Projects

11/21/2025

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Subsea cable installations in the Red Sea are delayed due to ongoing instability, which has halted projects such as Meta’s 2Africa and Google’s Blue-Raman.
Operators are unable to safely deploy cable-laying vessels amid the disruption.
This disruption drives firms to consider overland routes through Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq to bypass disrupted subsea links, increasing outage risk for vulnerable countries.

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Story summary

Subsea cable installations in the Red Sea are delayed due to ongoing instability, which has halted projects such as Meta’s 2Africa and Google’s Blue-Raman.
Operators are unable to safely deploy cable-laying vessels amid the disruption.
This disruption drives firms to consider overland routes through Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq to bypass disrupted subsea links, increasing outage risk for vulnerable countries.