Published 2026-09-12 · Event 2024-12-03

C-Lion2 is still a Baltic route-planning file; Sweden in the study is not a landing station

Cinia’s Northern EU Gateways page says the C-Lion2 submarine cable system will connect key hubs in the Baltic Sea region, especially in Finland, Sweden and Germany, and that cable-route planning is in progress. The Commission’s 3 December 2024 study page lists C-Lion2 at 1,300 km and names Sweden among study locations. A study location is not a Swedish cable-landing station and not a hall.

Cinia’s Northern EU Gateways page is the operator planning source used here. It says C-Lion2 will connect multiple key business and residential hubs in the Baltic Sea region, especially in Finland, Sweden and Germany. The project includes permit applications, route studies, planning and preparations for procurement. Cable-route planning is in progress. In progress is not a laid cable and not a granted permit.

The Commission’s 3 December 2024 page describes the same preparatory study. Project dates are 1 January 2023 to 31 August 2024. Cinia is coordinator and NORDUnet is partner. The page lists planned cable lengths, including C-Lion2 at 1,300 km, Far North Fiber at 17,000 km, Terrestrial Backbone Finland at 3,000 km and Polar Connect at 10,000 km. Those are study-page planned lengths. They are not lit capacity and not a Swedish landing drawing.

Sweden appears as a location on the Commission page and as a named hub country on Cinia’s C-Lion2 sentence. Neither sentence names a Swedish beach, a municipality or a cable-landing station. A later Call 2 implementation line on the Commission page concerns Far North Fiber landing stations in Finland and Ireland and a North Pole Fibre path from Kiruna to the Norwegian border. That line is a different project family. It is not C-Lion2 landfall in Sweden.

C-Lion1, already operating between Helsinki and Rostock, stays on its own row. Polar Connect and North Pole Fiber stay on theirs. A Stockholm or Gotland brochure that treats C-Lion2 as a live Swedish landing is rewriting a route-planning sentence. This page will not invent a Swedish landfall the sources omitted.

DataCenterSweden records C-Lion2 as a Baltic planning file. No Swedish project identifier is attached. The next update would need a later primary source that names a landing municipality, a permit decision or a construction start. Until then, Finland, Sweden and Germany remain hub-region words on a planning page.

Why it matters

A Baltic cable that lists Sweden is easy to file as a new Swedish landing campus. The study papers are usable only if route planning, 1,300 km and Sweden-as-location stay in the planning column.

What remains unknown

The cited pages do not name a Swedish landing municipality, a permit decision or a construction start for C-Lion2.

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