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Nexans was awarded a contract worth approximately 39 million euros to supply and install 52 km of 170 kV high-voltage subsea export cable with an optical fibre insert for phase I of the Belwind offshore wind farm on Bligh Bank, connecting the 55-turbine, 165 MW project to the Belgian onshore grid. The cable will be manufactured at Nexans’ Halden (Norway) factory, with optical fibres from Rognan, and laid and buried using the cable‑lay vessel C/S Nexans Skagerrak and CapJet trenching system for EPC contractor Van Oord Dredging & Marine Contractors b.v.