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Pict. 20 - load out gates Pict. 21 - rotation

Pict. 22 - connection of gate and fishing beam Pict. 23 - a lowering the gate

installation area by the tugboats. The barge was
moored underneath the launching system previously
laid onto the caissons. In order to reach for the correct
positon for the connection of the mobile gate with the
fishing beam (supported by the strand jacks on top of
the launching system) it was necessary to execute a
180 degrees rotation. This operation was executed by

This operation will definitely represent
another landmark in the history of naval
engineering

Pict. 24 - lowering the gate
the SPMTs (pict. 21), which were also used to get the
mobile barrier underneath the fishing beam. During all
the previous operations, the barge was ballasted in was automatically freed from the “fishing beam”. The
order to compensate the weights and movement of the fishing beam was lifted and taken into position ready
structures. The fishing beam was gently lowered and for the following installations. As mentioned above,
eventually connected to the gate (pict. 22) . After Fagioli prepared a “transport beam structure for the
connection, the gate was lifted by No. 4 strand jacks repositioning of the launching system. In order to
positioned on top of the lifting structure and the barge execute the following installations, Fagioli used the
was sailed away. The mobile gate was lowered into the transport beam (positioned onto the barge) to lift the
water by the strand jacks connected to the fishing gantry system and reposition it onto the following
beams (pict. 23-24) . The final operation was the caissons. The transport beam was a retractable
connection of the gate with the caisson after checking structure positioned onto SPMTs and provided with
the correct positioning (pict. 25). This last operation strand jacks. The transport beams were skidded to
was extremely precise and checked by waterproof the outside to get in contact with the gantry lifting
cameras. Once the connection was executed, the gate system (pict 26). The gantry lifting system was

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