Sugar Dock, Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands

Sugar Dock, Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands is a submarine cable landing point in Northern Mariana Islands (coordinates 15.1518°, 145.6996°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in Northern Mariana Islands's international connectivity infrastructure.

The Sugar Dock is a structure at the edge of Chalan Kanoa, Saipan, extending out from the western shore of the island into the Philippine Sea in the western North Pacific Ocean. Aquatic plants, including sea grass, grow around the dock. The dock was built by the South Seas Development Company to support the sugar industry during the Japanese period in the Northern Mariana Islands. American forces captured the dock during the Battle of Saipan and used it for logistics during and after the Asia-Pacific War. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Sugar Dock, Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands, international traffic can reach 2 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include Guam, Northern Mariana Islands. 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 Sugar Dock, Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands 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

• Atisa (2017) — Atisa is a point-to-point submarine cable linking Guam and Northern Mariana Islands. Landing at Piti, San Jose, Sasanlagu, Sugar Dock, 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.