Piombino will be the logistics base for the removal and the recovery of Costa Concordia



Piombino will be the logistics base for all the useful operations of yard to the removal and the recovery of Costa Concordia, the been shipwrecked cruise ship the night 13th January near Isola del Giglio. The Tuscany Region has announced specifying that I use it of the port of Talamone instead is confirmed for the selection of the refusals.

The regional agency has explained that the decision is communicated by the Titan-Micoperi group, person in charge of the removal of the ship from the shipowner Costa Crociere, during the Conference of the services that has verified the project, of it has declared the feasibility and, contextually, it has given the go-ahead immediate to the operations.

In the next few days they will be characterized, in agreement with the Harbour Authority of Piombino, the large squares and the necessary docks at the opening of the yard. The port will be the point of reference for all the average protagonists of the recovery: ships, tugs, pontoons.

Tomorrow to Roma Costa Crociere and Titan-Micoperi they will introduce the project of removal of Costa Concordia to the presence of the head department of the Civil Protection and delegated commissioner for the Franco Gabrielli emergency. The Region has remembered that the project will be deepened in course of work for the implementing phases and will have to take into consideration the prescription indicated by the Conference of the services that has been expressed on documents transmitted and deposited from the shipowner and that its phase of performance will monitor step by step the project in every.

The next week they will begin the geologic investigations of the seabed on which it has run aground Costa Concordia. In such a way the dimensioning of the useful palificate ones to the recovery of the ship will be defined. Quickly after the land will be perforated, put the necessary poles and legacy the hull with steel wire ropes. To this Costa Concordia point it will be put in safety is will face without worries the eventual worsening of the conditions weather and the sea in autumn. Finished the mass in safety, presumablly between October and November, the ship will be straightened through the positioning of large chests on the side left. Within the year the ship will be remittance in flotation graces to other large chests which placed to starboard.

At last between January and March of 2013 Costa Crociere, together with the Titan-Micoperi group, it will restore the situation of the ecosystem it pre-exist to the shipwreck in order to guarantee to Isola del Giglio the natural development of the tourist season.