The managing director of Costa Crociere has thanked the team who has straightened the Concord



The managing director of Costa Crociere has turned a thanks to the team who in 19 hours between monday and yesterday has succeeded to carry to term with success the rectification of the property left at death one of Costa Concordia: "graces personal - Michael Thamm has declared - to everyone of you, five hundred women and men of the consortium Titan Micoperi that with talent, engagement and enormous passion, you have afforded a decisive step for the removal of the Concord from Isola del Giglio". Thamm has remembered that the rectification of the cruise ship that rested on the reef of the island is "the more delicate and complex step than a project unprecedented in the naval history. An only technical-ingegneristica operation, than - it has added - has demanded, beyond to enormous a technological effort, the invention of a new way to think".

Moreover Thamm has turned "graces - with pleasure - to all the women and the men of Coast, for the energy and the dedication every day. Alle institutions, to the authorities and our partner, for the their precious collaboration. And in particular to the Department of Civil Protection and the Observatory for the confidence and the support. Graces special to the mayor and all the gigliesi: generous and it are patient. All you have given very more than had. And also we - he has concluded the managing director of the crocieristica company - will continue to go to any length so that he anticipates and the future of the cruises they are always better, sure and serene. For our hosts, for which in the world they work and they travel for sea".

An approval to the success of the operation has reached also from the Shipping president of the Italian Confederation (Confitarma), Paolo d' Amico: "creed - it has explained - than only which as me they belong to the wonderful marine world, can understand which it is the state of mind and the multitude of feelings in front of this creature of the sea that the human madness has made dramatically to be shipwrecked on the stumbling blocks of the Lily, and that today it resurfaces thanks to exceptional men. I do not forget - it has continued of Friend - the tragic destiny of which they have died and I once again renew the solidarity to which they are hit by this incredible event, wishing that also last the two victims can be soon found again. Moreover, I believe that the sense of national pride for the extraordinary and "titanic" success of this operation would have to at least place from part for a moment all the problems that still must be resolved, all the arguments for near future of the ship and its destination, all the fears for the environmental risks. In short - it has found the president of the shipowning association - we have assisted to an only event in the history of the incidents and the marine recoveries, whose happened it is an example of technical excellence and the organizational one that it has made to appreciate to the world the abilities to a team in great Italian part".

"A particular thanks - it has specified the president of Confitarma - goes to Costa Crociere whom it has known to react to circumstances truly very difficult, maintaining the bases solid in order to continue in that increase that has returned the cruises in Italy a case of excellence inside of our tourist industry, has demonstrated to its seriousness in respecting all the previewed engagements of expense and unexpected and, thanks to its authority, it has chosen the consortium Titan-Micoperi Italian-American in order to carry to term the project. They are truly proud of being able to number Costa Crociere and Micoperi between the associated companies to Confitarma. Italian professionalities, qualities and abilities: to they a sincere one and touched graces".