The disruption caused to Gibraltar-based i-gaming firms by the fire at the territory’s Waterport Power Station on Sunday April 21 was more limited than initial reports suggested.

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While some operators suffered service black-outs, tenants of Europort and Atlantic Suites, the largest commercial complex in Gibraltar, continued to operate normally throughout the incidents without interruption.

This included the operations of online gaming companies such as 888, Mansion, GTECH, bwin.party, Victor Chandler, Gala Coral and 32Red.

Sapphire Networks, telecommunications supplier to the i-gaming industry, and itself serviced by the Europort power station, also continued to operate throughout the two black-outs.

“Our gaming clients in Europort that are connected to this special facility carried on business as usual over the two days, as was the case the last time Gibraltar suffered a similar black-out two years ago,” said Carsten Kjeldsen, operations director.

“A number of Gibraltar’s leading gaming brands are within Europort and were totally unaffected by the power failure. Our fibre network running through Gibraltar, Madrid, London and Amsterdam was also unaffected.

“Our own data centres are fully backed up and suffered no downtime,” added Kjeldsen.