{"id":16192,"date":"2024-04-23T12:43:35","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T12:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=16192"},"modified":"2024-04-23T12:43:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T12:43:35","slug":"sicilian-railway-project-two-more-tbms-pass-fat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=16192","title":{"rendered":"Sicilian Railway Project &#8211; Two more TBMs Pass FAT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In order to constructing tunnels for Sicily\u2019s Palermo-Catania railway, two more TBMs have passed their Factory Acceptance Test.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Deploying location of these two EPBMs will be Lot 3 Lercara-Caltanissetta Xirbi, which involves the detailed design and construction of 47km of new railway line, including 22km of tunnels.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While currently four of the five TBMs for Lot 3 have completed testing, advancing the Lot 3 is up to consortium of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webuildgroup.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Webuild<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghella.com\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ghella<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pizzarotti.it\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Impresa Pizzarotti<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As a part of Rete Ferroviaria Italiana\u2019s (RFI) wider program, the Lercara-Caltanissetta Xirbi section is to modernise the Palermo-Catania-Messina railway. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to constructing tunnels for Sicily\u2019s Palermo-Catania railway, two more TBMs have passed their Factory Acceptance Test. Deploying location of these two EPBMs will be Lot 3 Lercara-Caltanissetta Xirbi, which involves the detailed design and construction of 47km of new railway line, including 22km of tunnels. While currently four of the five TBMs for Lot 3 have completed testing, advancing the Lot 3 is up to consortium of Webuild, Ghella and Impresa Pizzarotti. As a part of Rete Ferroviaria Italiana\u2019s (RFI) wider program, the Lercara-Caltanissetta Xirbi section is to modernise the Palermo-Catania-Messina railway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43],"tags":[3336,223,3470,84,47],"class_list":["post-16192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-project-show-case","tag-factory-acceptance-test","tag-italy","tag-sicilian-railway-project","tag-tbm","tag-tunneling","post--single"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sicilian Railway Project - Two more TBMs Pass FAT - Tunnelingworld<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In order to constructing tunnels for Sicily\u2019s Palermo-Catania railway, two more TBMs have passed their Factory Acceptance Test.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=16192\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sicilian Railway Project - Two more TBMs Pass FAT - Tunnelingworld\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In order to constructing tunnels for Sicily\u2019s Palermo-Catania railway, two more TBMs have passed their Factory Acceptance Test.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=16192\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Tunnelingworld\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-04-23T12:43:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Sicilian-Railway-Project-TBM-3.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"654\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"392\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"lyndamyer\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"lyndamyer\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tunnelingworld.com\\\/?p=16192#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tunnelingworld.com\\\/?p=16192\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"lyndamyer\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tunnelingworld.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/8ddd744e434f1c1283e3fea3a42e20ee\"},\"headline\":\"Sicilian Railway Project &#8211; 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