Klagshamn, Sweden

Klagshamn: Submarine Cable Landing Point

Klagshamn is a neighbourhood of Malmö, located in Skåne County in southern Sweden. Situated on the Swedish coast, it serves as a submarine cable landing point connecting Sweden to neighbouring countries across the Baltic and North Sea region. Two submarine cables land at Klagshamn, making it one of several dual-cable landing points in Sweden's broader infrastructure.

The two cables landing here — Aurora and GlobalConnect Denmark-Sweden — both connect Sweden to Denmark, establishing Klagshamn as part of a short but strategically active cross-strait corridor. The Aurora cable additionally extends to Germany, giving Klagshamn a link that reaches beyond the immediate Scandinavian region into continental Europe. Together, these cables enable both inter-Scandinavian and Scandinavian-to-continental connectivity from this southern Swedish location.

Cables Landing at Klagshamn

Aurora is a submarine cable with a length of 500 km, with a ready-for-service date of 2024 (draft status). In addition to Sweden, the cable connects to Denmark and Germany, making it a multi-country system linking Scandinavia with continental Europe. Aurora is among the more recently introduced cables at this landing point and represents the newer layer of subsea connectivity serving Klagshamn.

GlobalConnect Denmark-Sweden has a ready-for-service date of 1994 (draft status), making it the older of the two cables at Klagshamn. It connects Sweden and Denmark, forming a bilateral link across the narrow strait that separates the two countries. As one of Sweden's earliest submarine cables — 1994 also marks the year of the country's first recorded submarine cable — GlobalConnect Denmark-Sweden has been part of the Swedish subsea network since its early development.

Regional Context

Within Sweden, Klagshamn ranks among a group of landing points hosting two cables, alongside Capri Strand, Helsingborg, and Stavsnas. Sweden has 28 submarine cables landing across 28 landing points in total, and Klagshamn falls within the top 90% of those locations by cable count. Higher-capacity nodes such as Farosund, Stockholm, and Visby each host three cables, placing them a step above Klagshamn in terms of the number of systems served.

Network Role

Klagshamn functions as a dual-cable landing point, rather than a single-terminus site, providing two distinct subsea routes from southern Sweden. Through GlobalConnect Denmark-Sweden, it maintains a direct bilateral connection to Denmark, while Aurora broadens that reach to include Germany. This gives Klagshamn a role in both short-haul Scandinavian connectivity and a slightly longer cross-regional link to central Europe.

The presence of cables from 1994 and 2024 at the same landing point illustrates the layered development of Sweden's submarine cable infrastructure over three decades. Within the Swedish cable graph, Klagshamn's two cables and its southerly position in Malmö make it a notable point of connectivity between the Scandinavian peninsula and continental Europe.