Fagioli’s Goliath shipyard challenge in Venice

Alex Dahm Editor, International Cranes and Specialized Transport

12 July 2021

Multiple types of equipment were used to offload, transport, store and assemble a new 800 tonne Goliath gantry crane for the Fincantieri shipyard in Venice, Italy.

Italy-based international heavy lift and transport specialist Fagioli is no stranger to completing large and heavy jobs in the region. Most of the sections or blocks on this crane weighed between about 10 and 500 tonnes but the main girder, when assembled from its six pieces, weighed a massive 2,383 tonnes.

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