Within March it will be decided in which port to transport Costa Concordia and in June the property left at death one will be removed by Isola del Giglio



Within next March it will be decided in which port to transport property left at death of Costa Concordia for its dismantling and next june the cruise ship will be removed by Isola del Giglio, where it is shipwrecked at the beginning of 2012. It has announced today the head of the Civil Protection, Franco Gabrielli, having introduced the tempistica for the removal of the ship, encounter to which has participated also the minister of the Atmosphere, Andrea Orlando, the managing director of Costa Crociere, Michael Thamm, and in charge of the removal project, Franco Porcellacchia.

Gabrielli has explained that they are the 12 ports and the destinations that have been offered to receive the property left at death one of Costa Concordia, of which four they are Italian ports - Civitavecchia, Genoa, Piombino (where they are the two societies to have for dismantling introduced proposed) and Palermo - four are Turkish ports, one are the French port of call of distant Marseilles and the others three are a lot from the place of the shipwreck being in Norway, in the United Kingdom and quite in China.

The head of the Department of the civil Protection has specified that if the destination port had to be to a distance such not to allow the directed transport, the ship will be transported in an intermediate port where he will pause until the beginning of the next autumn when the Dockwise Vanguard of the Dutch Dockwise, the company chosen for the transport of the property left at death one ( on 10 October 2013), it will be able to transport it to great distances.

From part its minister Orlando has specified that the government would prefer that the property left at death one was dismantled in a national port, also in consideration of the reduction of the risks of allowed environmental character from the transport of the property left at death one on a short distance. Orlando has declared also preferable the towing of the ship by means of tugs, rather than its boarding on the Dockwise Vanguard, the greatest semisubmersible ship of the world.

In the course of the encounter the current esteem of the costs of the project of removal of the property left at death one of Costa Concordia is announced that, with the exception of its transport and dismantling, is of beyond 600 million euros, figure that - it is evidenced - will not be borne by the State. The managing director of Costa Crociere has specified that up to now 70% of the direct expense are carried out in Italy, in which - Michael Thamm has explained - is spold about 261 million euros.