Start of the second tranche of work for the remittance in flotation of Costa Concordia



The Observatory on the recovery of Costa Concordia, the cruise ship been shipwrecked at the beginning of this year to Isola del Giglio, has given the green light for the start of the second tranche of useful work to the remittance in flotation of the property left at death one realized from the Titan-Micoperi consortium which charged by Costa Crociere ( on 23 April 2012).

"The Observatory - president Maria Sargentini to conclusion of the reunion held last night to Florence has explained - has only characterized the necessity to daily integrate some documentations on the base of the reports produced in the operating base of the Lily, but the state of the program of the work turns out satisfactory. The tempistica records in truth some delay; the first phase in fact will be shut to first of October for problems rebelled during the activities and connected to the characteristics of the seabed in which the centers for the micropoles are managed".

While it continues in Fincantieri the assemblage of the large chests that will allow the water line of the ship and the construction of the submarine platforms on which this material will bear away the hull in the phase of rectification (all will pass then for the logistics base of Piombino), the teams of workers and sub work on the flank of the Concord in order to lodge the jacks and the cables that they will be put in tension from the four block of anchorage immersed and planted with tens of micropoles on the seabed side earth regarding the property left at death one.

All the work is left over naturally, has emphasized president Sargentini, under the continuous and constant monitoring of waters, air and territory (with particular attention to digestion of the materials and of the refusals of it turns out from the work) got ahead from all the activated from the Conference of the Services for the recovery and represented subjects of control in the Observatory: Tuscany region, Ministry of the Atmosphere and the Protection of the territory and the sea, Department of the Civil Protection, Arpat, Province of Grosseto, Municipality of Isola del Giglio, Ministry of the Interior, Ministry of Infrastructures and the Transports, Ispra, Harbour office of Livorno, Health ministry and Istituto Superiore of the Health.