Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Shipwrecked Concordia Floated for Tow to Genoa



The shipwrecked Costa Concordia become efficaciously refloated Monday in training to be towed away for scrapping, 30 months after it struck a reef and capsized, killing 32 humans.
authorities expressed satisfaction that the operation to glide the Concordia from an underwater platform had proceeded with out a hitch. Technicians have been preparing to shift it some 30 meters (yards) and then anchor the big cruise ship before finishing the day’s operations.
The complete operation to put off the Concordia from the reef and flow it to Genoa, where it will likely be scrapped, will value a total of €1.5 billion ($2 billion), Costa Crociere SpA CEO Michael Tamm told reporters.
The closely listing ship changed into dragged upright in a daring maneuver last September, after which crews fixed massive tanks to its flanks to flow it. Towing is ready to begin July 21. It’s approximately 2 hundred nautical miles (320 kilometers) to Genoa and the trip is expected to take 5 days.
“The operation commenced well, however it will be completed simplest when we have finished the delivery to Genoa,” Italian surroundings Minister Gian Luca Galletti told reporters Monday.
Concordia’s Italian captain is being tried in Tuscany for manslaughter, inflicting the shipwreck and leaving behind ship earlier than all have been evacuated.

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