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For the removal of the hull of Costa Concordia months will be necessary 10-12
Al sieve is six operations plans. To fine March-beginning April the enterprise will be selected that will carry out the operation
March 9, 2012
In the course of a today's encounter to Rome with the head department of the Civil Protection - delegated commissioner for the emergency for the shipwreck of Costa Concordia, prefect Franco Gabrielli, the president and managing director of Costa Crociere, Pier Luigi Foschi, has announced that they are the six introduced operations plans in the within of the contest of contract for the removal of the hull of the ship that have reached within the expiration on 3 March.
Of the ten societies, best and the more experts to the world in this field, that they were invited to participate to the contract contest - has explained Gloomy - three have renounced for other engagements already taken previously and two have been associated introducing a project in municipality. The introduced projects, of elevated qualitative standard - it has specified - preview various methods and techniques of participation; all the plans, but, have in municipality the maximum attention in guaranteeing the minor possible environmental impact, the safeguard of the tourist and economic activities of Isola del Giglio, and maximum safety of the participations.
Given to the complexity and the exceptionality of the operation - it has explained still Gloomy - the projects preview a variable duration, precautionary estimated in 10-12 months.
The manager of Costa Crociere has confirmed that the selection process will respect the provisional times: the technical appraisals of the six plans are already in course and for the half of the month it will be arrived to the definition of "short list" of projects; from this, at last, the better plan will come chosen, that April will be returned public within fine March-beginning.
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