Marseille: the quiet gateway between three continents
Once a secondary landing point, the French port is now one of the most important subsea hubs linking Europe, Africa and Asia.
Connectivity Analyst
Marseille rarely features in conversations about digital power. Yet a growing share of the traffic between Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia now lands on the French Mediterranean coast, making the city a strategic chokepoint and opportunity in equal measure.
Why here
Geography is destiny. Marseille offers the shortest viable path for cables transiting the Suez corridor into Europe, and a cluster of carrier-neutral data centres has grown up around the landing stations to monetise that position.
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