Balluta Bay, Malta

Balluta Bay, Malta is a submarine cable landing point in Malta (coordinates 35.9341°, 14.3800°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in Malta's international connectivity infrastructure.

Balluta Bay, is a bay on the northeast coast of Malta within St. Julian's. It is a popular recreation spot used for swimming, diving, and water sports, with a triangular pjazza surrounded by cafés and shaded by Judas trees. Its skyline is dominated by the neo-gothic Carmelite Parish Church and the Art Nouveau Balluta Buildings, which are apartment buildings on the eastern shore, as well as a cluster of terraced townhouses in the local variant of Georgian-style architecture. The south shore of Balluta Bay features Le Méridien St. Julian's Hotel, built on the grounds surrounding the 18th-century Villa Cassar Torregiani. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Balluta Bay, Malta, international traffic can reach 1 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include Italy. This location depends on a single cable system — a characteristic that makes it strategically sensitive to physical disruptions.

Monitoring status

No monitoring incidents were recorded on cables serving Balluta Bay, Malta in the past 90 days — all connected systems remained within normal latency thresholds. Our monitoring network continuously samples latency from external probes to targets reachable via these cables.

About the cables

• Epic Malta-Sicily Cable System (EMSCS) (2004) — Epic Malta-Sicily Cable System (EMSCS) is a point-to-point submarine cable linking Malta and Italy. Landing at Balluta Bay, Catania, it provides a direct fiber-optic path between the two countries, serving as both a primary data route and a redundancy option for neighboring cable systems. Read more →

Submarine cable data from TeleGeography. Geographic context from Wikipedia. Monitoring metrics updated continuously by GeoCables.