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The AAG in Vung Tau is active. It's the AAE-1 (Vung Tau), TGN-IA (Vung Tau), and APG (Da Nang) that are down. Also, this happens all the time to VN because th
by alephnerd 2y ago
The AAG in Vung Tau is active.
It's the AAE-1 (Vung Tau), TGN-IA (Vung Tau), and APG (Da Nang) that are down.
Also, this happens all the time to VN because the southern portion of that Sea has heavy traffic from freight shippers, oil drilling vessels, fishing fleets, and ofc naval deployments. If you're ever flying from HK to ASEAN over the SCS on a clear day, it's a treat seeing all the ships relatively jam packed as far as the eye can see.
Saigon Port and neighboring Vung Tau Port are themselves the busiest and 3rd busiest ports in VN. Most likely a freighter hit a single point of failure.
VN has relatively few (5) undersea internet cables for the size of market it is (eg. Thailand has 8 cables, PH has 17, Myanmar has 4, Cambodia 3) and most are newish (last 15 years), but there are like 3-4 new undersea cable projects that should come online within the next year.
Edit: AAE-1 has been down for months now because the MV Rubymar was hit by a Houthi missile and sank in the Red Sea cutting that and multiple other cables.
In reality it's most likely a freighter that cut the TGN-IA and APG.
- maxbond 2y agoInteresting. I do see there's a point where TGN-1A and APG cross, so perhaps a ship dragged a net across both in that vicinity? I'm well out of my depth here, but I would imagine that ships don't drag their anchors very far, but might drag a net for a long distance. So if they were around the point where they overlap, they would only have to drag it a couple miles to hit both.
- alephnerd 2y agoI'm not a maritimer so I'm speculating, but it is a very active shipping corridor (33% of global shipping), so I wouldn't be surprised if someone messed with a net or anchor somewhere, and inadvertently cut both cables.
- ofrzeta 2y agoThat sounds well-informed. How come you know so much? If it happens all the time how long does it take to repair a cable?