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.
Mei-Lin Tan
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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