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On 20 November 2019, French transmission system operator RTE awarded Nexans a €115 million contract to design, supply and install the Saint-Brieuc grid connection’s 225 kV export cable system, comprising 67 km of offshore three-core submarine cables and 93 km of onshore single-core land cables, with integrated fibre optics and inspection, maintenance and repair services; the submarine cables are to be manufactured at Nexans’ Halden facility and installed by its cable-laying vessel CS Skagerrak using the Capjet trenching system, while the land cables are supplied from Charleroi.