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disconnected from the bottom base, and was in 2012 and 2014, this new system allowed a save in
connected to the transport beams (pict 27). The terms of schedule time and costs, thanks to the
transport beams strand jacks lifted the launching movable towers. The new Fagioli launching system
system (pict. 28 and pict. 29) and the barge was was easier to be removed and repositioned.
unmoored ready to be pushed by the tugboats onto
the following caissons. This operation will definitely represent another landmark
in the history of naval engineering. Thanks to
engineering and safety studies Fagioli managed to
Final considerations perform extremely precise operations in the sea with

Compared to the gantry launching system used back zero accident occurred.

Rudy Corbetta

Rudy Corbetta, degree in Foreign languages at the University of Bergamo. He has been working for Fagioli SPA
since 1999 as publicity officer.

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