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Rossi (Tuscany Region): Piombino is the better port in order to receive the property left at death one of Costa Concordia
The cruise ship could be removed between July and september
January 14, 2013
Piombino is the better port in order to receive the property left at death one of Costa Concordia, once that it will be returned to float. The president of the Tuscany Region has restated yesterday, Enrico Rossi, in the day of the memory of the shipwreck of the ship, happened a year ago to Isola del Giglio ( on 16 January 2012).
Remembering that Costa Crociere has entrusted to the London society that has selected the projects for the removal of the ship the task to characterize the more apt marine port of call in order to receive the property left at death one and that a decision will be taken within the February end ( on 23 April 2012), Rossi has explained that Piombino is the better choice because of being the port more close and from an environmental point of view it guarantees therefore more safety. There the ship, dragged - it has specified - could arrive in a day and means. Moreover - it has added - Piombino has also adequate competences and tradition. And then - he has emphasized the president of the Region - if they must be to us fallen back economic would be well that they were in Tuscany, than the disaster and the shipwreck has it quickly.
Rossi has continued explaining that the situation is under control, but - it has emphasized - the damage has been. The president of the Region has announced that the next week will be a reunion in order to decide as while raising the waterline of the ship, lightening it even than some you leave superficial. The regional agency has specified that, second the last one cronoprogramma, the ship could be removed between July and september.
Yesterday to Isola del Giglio the minister of the Atmosphere was present also, Corrado Clini, in order to carry the solidarity of the government to the relatives of thirty-two the victims of the shipwreck. Saturday, while, the Council of Ministers has decided the delay of a year of the commissariale management for the recovery of Costa Concordia, having married it on January 31, 2014. "It is first time to the world - minister Clini has remembered - than makes an participation of this genre, and this must happen with maximum safety also for the atmosphere. The delay has had own this".
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Piombino is the better port in order to receive the property left at death one of Costa Concordia, once that it will be returned to float. The president of the Tuscany Region has restated yesterday, Enrico Rossi, in the day of the memory of the shipwreck of the ship, happened a year ago to Isola del Giglio 
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
