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Reported fleet size
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No published figure available
Container capacity
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Not a ranked container line
Gross tonnage on record
10,147
Summed over 1 ships reporting tonnage
In brief
Nexans S.A. is a global company in the cable and optical fibre industry headquartered in Paris, France.
The group is active in four main business areas: buildings and territories (construction, local infrastructure, smart cities / grids, e-mobility), high voltage and projects (offshore wind farms, subsea interconnections, land high voltage), data and telecoms (telecom networks), data transmission, FTTx, LAN cabling, renewable energies, petroleum, railways and rolling stock, aeronautical and automation.
It is the world's second largest manufacturer of cables after Prysmian S.p.A. In 2017 the Group operated in 34 countries with over 26,000 employees and sales of around €6.4 billion.
Nexans was founded in 2000 as a business unit of the telecommunications firm Alcatel after its acquisition of a number of companies in the cable sector. It was spun out and listed on the Paris stock exchange the following year. It is currently listed on Euronext Paris, Compartment A.
In 2012, Nexans completed acquisition of Australian cable maker Olex to become Nexans Olex. Nexans currently operate the Lillydale, Victoria cable manufacturing plant which is Australia's second largest cable production plant after Prysmian's in Liverpool, NSW.
Origin
Nexans was founded in 2000 by one named founder on record. Portraits are shown only where a freely licensed photograph exists and its photographer is known.

Founder
Alcatel-Lucent
French defunct global telecommunications equipment company
Photo: AnaBé · CC BY-SA 3.0 · file
Corporate profile
Reported financials
Published company figures for a single reported year, shown together so they are comparable. Figures from other years are not mixed in — a page that pairs one year's revenue with another's assets misreports both.
Revenue
5.8bn EUR
Reported for 2016
Operating income
812m EUR
Reported for 2016
Corporate structure
Subsidiaries and units (4)
Fleet on record
Composition of the 2 vessels this registry attributes to Nexans. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.
Delivery history
Ships delivered in each of the last 10 years, counted from the recorded build year of vessels attributed to this company, with the running total of its fleet on record. 1 deliveries fall inside this window.
| Year | Deliveries | Ships delivered | Gross tonnage added | Fleet on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2018 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2019 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2020 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2021 | 1 | — | 2 | |
| 2022 | 0 | — | 2 | |
| 2023 | 0 | — | 2 | |
| 2024 | 0 | — | 2 | |
| 2025 | 0 | — | 2 | |
| 2026 | 0 | — | 2 |
Vessel records
| Ship | IMO | Type | Flag | Built | Gross tonnage | Deadweight | Length | Builder |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7619458 | Unclassified | Norway | 1976 | 10,147 | — | 119.0 m | — | |
| 9862059 | Offshore supply | Norway | 2021 | — | — | 149.9 m | Ulstein Verft |
Ships in registry counts individual vessel records attributed to the company here. Reported fleet is the company’s published total. They measure different things and are shown separately on purpose.
In context
Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
With 2 vessels attributed to it here, Nexans is the 341st largest of the 965 operators in this directory that hold at least one ship on record, against a median of 2 across that group. That is a count of individually identified hulls, not the company’s published fleet size — the two are different measurements and both are shown above where available.
France is the country of registration for 53 commercial operators in this directory, among which Nexans ranks 9th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 128 vessels here. 1 of them carry a published container-capacity ranking. See every operator registered in France.
Founded in 2000, Nexans is 26 years old. This directory holds 146 operators founded within five years either side of that date, whose median fleet on record is 1 ships. The median founding year across all commercial operators here is 1966, and the oldest on record dates to 1514.
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Provenance
Company and vessel recordsWikidata item Q141644, released under CC0. Counted figures on this page are counts over those records.
Written summaryQuoted from Nexans on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Published fleet figuresNo published fleet figure is available for this company.