📋 Tender Overview
- With the positioning of the twelfth cassone, the construction site marks a new progress. The work is created by the Pergenova Breakwater Consortium, led by Webuild, on behalf of the Port System Authority of the Western Ligurian Sea.
At the end of August, the activities for the construction of the larger cassoni will begin, with dimensions up to 67 meters in length, 35 meters wide and 33 meters high. To build them, the Tronds Barge 33 will be used, a semi -memmergible but 110 -meter long and 45 -meter long barks capable of immersing up to 20 meters below the water level. This sinking capacity allows you to lower the ponte of the barge below the floating line, facilitating the launching operations and handling of the cassons.
There are currently over 450 people involved in the project, between direct staff and third parties and with the new activities planned there will be an employment increase, also linked to the doubling of work shifts.
With a length that in its final configuration will reach 6.2 kilometers and a depth of laying that reaches 50 meters-the deepest ever tested in Europe for a Foranea dam-the new infrastructure will make the port of Genoa accessible to new generation ships up to 400 meters in length, strengthening the role of the Ligurian stopover in the Rhine-Alps corridor of the Ten-T network.
The work, developed entirely in the open sea, is taking shape on an already consolidated seabed with over 2,200 tons of gravel cutlery to which are added 41,000 submerged columns, equal to a total of 478,000 linear meters already made, more than half the overall length foreseen by the project.
The new Foranea dam represents a strategic project for the future of Italian logistics, which integrates innovation, sustainability and systemic vision. In synergy with the, currently underway and also this made by Webuild, it will help create a modern and interconnected infrastructure system, capable of responding to the challenges of mobility and global trade.
