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Seems excessive, but I imagine that the shipbuilding company (Oceano) is beneficial to the local economy. It doesn't strike me as odd that the city would honor their request.

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Doesn't seem excessive or unusual, stuff like this is normal anywhere where companies build big things.

maybe not, but it seems really odd that an established ship-building company would build something that can't make it down-river like that

It would only be odd if this arrangement was somehow unusual, but it isn't. The bridge was designed to do this.

It would've been unusual for local authorities to not work with the shipbuilder.

Unless they had already talked to the city to make sure the bridge could be moved before building the yacht. Do you really think they just built the fucking thing and crossed their fingers that the city would allow the bridge move?

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