The estimated fuel consumption saving for high speed highway operation of road trains is in the region of 20 percent depending on vehicle spacing and geometry.
The detailed review into how the operation works could consider saving money by cutting winter sailing times but also improving revenue by promoting more specialist cruises.
This also allowed Giampietri the ability to inform the hostages to stay separated from the terrorists just minutes before the rescue operation began, possibly saving their lives.
He provided live coverage of the first operation performed during the war, and performed life-saving brain surgery five times himself in a desert operating room.