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The outstanding growth of these
markets allows Fagioli to put on
“the table all its advanced
technological know-how,
experience and state-of-the-art
equipment, to become a reliable
partner for the engineering,
heavy transport and lifting
activity for the Renewable
sector, with a specialization
in Offshore Wind Energy
extra-heavy items handling
operations

Fagioli was contracted for the weighing, transport
and load out operations of Wind Offshore Jackets
in Indonesia (Picture 2) and Spain.

Indonesia Project
Fagioli PT Fagioli Indonesia was awarded the
contract for two projects based in Karimun
Indonesia by our business partners PT Saipem
Indonesia, for the execution of all yard service
activities concerning a total number of 88 Jackets was completed each of the structural jacket legs Pict. 1
for the Wind Offshore Renewable industry. was fitted with purpose made lifting clamps in
The service provided by Fagioli covered and preparation for the vertical transport.
included the following services: Once successfully upended the jackets were
Site activity such as jacket horizontal transporta- next fitted with a prefabricated Transitional piece
tion, jacket upending, TP installation, jacket vertical weighing a further 350 tons. The TP was located by
transportation, and Loadout by Ro-Ro onto dedi- means of male/female location sockets and then
cated heavy lift ships of 32 four-legged 1,653 ton welded into osition and lifted using a Specialized
windfarm jackets with Transition Piece on top for TP lifting tool assigned to the project after a
the first project , and 52 three-legged 1,427 ton careful structural integrity check made by Fagioli
windfarm jackets with Transition Piece on top, and engineering department with the support of the TP
2 three-legged 1,779 ton substation jackets. lifting tool provider (Picture 3).
Once these works were completed the entire struc-
The transport of items from the point of fabrication, ture now weighing over 1,700 tons was moved
to the upending area, whilst in the still horizontal vertically by a 96 axles SPMT convoy fitted with a
position was achieved by using different 2 specially fabricated Fagioli transport beams that Pict. 3
configurations of total 72 axle lines of SPMT, 4 in
house designed and fabricated connecting beams
and 4 Power Pack Unit, all fitted with specialized
purpose build jacket saddles fitted to the decks.
These were positioned at each end of the jacket
structure.
Once at the upending area, a tandem lift operation
was executed to lift the jacket from the deck of
the SPMTs, once suspended the SPMTs were
removed and the jackets were lifted straight into
the vertical position before being set back down on
purpose made jacket stands at the base of each
leg (Picture 1). For these highly specialized lifting
operations Fagioli used the Liebherr LR13000 that
has a maximum lifting capacity of 3000 tons, unit
known as the most powerful conventional crawler
crane in the world. After this stage of the operation

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