The rigalleggiamento of the property left at death one of Costa Concordia will be carried out within two weeks and the ship will arrive to Genoa to the end of July



The property left at death one of the Costa Concordia cruise ship will be carried by the end of this month by Isola del Giglio to Genoa to the aim of its dismantling. Yesterday, in fact, with the prescription assumed from the Conference of the services purposely convened in recent days in order to express an opinion on the project, that it is approved of to wide majority, but not unanimously ( on 25 July 2014).

As a result of the decision of the government to authorize the transfer of the property left at death one to Genoa, Costa Crociere has announced that the rigalleggiamento of the ship could be carried out within two weeks, by authority received by the Observatory of Monitoring, and that the definitive removal from Isola del Giglio will be able to happen therefore within the July end: "the approval by the Council of Ministers of the project for the transfer of the property left at death one of the Concord to Genoa, for the next start to digestion and money laundering - the managing director of the crocieristica company has declared, Michael Thamm - now allows us to see more and more close the fulfillment of that engagement who the company has assumed two years and means make: to remove property left at death of the Concord from Isola del Giglio the first possible one and in safety. The goal is near: we find ourselves to two weeks from the possible rigalleggiamento. We will face the final phase with the engagement and the attention that until from the beginning we have put in this project not lacking in challenges, having employed the best professionalities and technologies, in the respect of the most elevated standard than environmental safeguard and in full collaboration with the authorities".

Costa Crociere has explained that currently they remain to only install two of the 30 large chests necessary in order to make to rigalleggiare the ship. "The last travel of the Concord - Thamm has remembered - will happen under the guide of Titan Micoperi, the consortium already which charged of the activities of removal of the property left at death one in the yard of Isola del Giglio. Once to Genoa, we will be able to count on the strong technical-managerial abilities to the consortium formed from Saipem, that it will cure the environmental aspects of the operations of digestion of the Concord, and from Saint George of the Port, first yard in Italy to being joined white special of the enterprises of naval and historically active demolition in the field of the repairs and naval transformations. The technical solidity and financial institution of Saipem/SGdP represent an important guarantee for the project".

The crocieristica company has specified that, once brought back in flotation, the property left at death one of the Concord will be towed by Isola del Giglio to the harbour area of Voltri to Genoa under the guide of the team Titan Micoperi. The ship will cover a distance of about 190 miles to the average speed of two knots, with previewed times of distance of four days. The property left at death one will travel to a limited speed and will be escorted by means, equipment and staff specialized in a position to taking part for the resolution of any problem, between which a team of expert marine biologists.

The project Saipem/Saint George of the Port for dismantling and money laundering of the property left at death one of Costa Concordia will be developed in four distinguished executive phases whose lasted total it is previewed in 22 months. In the earlier stage the operations necessary will be executed in order to receive the Concord in the port of Genoa Voltri, where the removal of the internal furnishings and the preparations of the emerged bridges will be carried out the property left at death lightening of through activity which. In the second phase the property left at death one will be transferred by the Outer Dam of Voltri to the Former Pier Superbasin where the dismantling of the structures of the bridges from the 14 to the 2 will be executed. The third phase will consist in the execution of the propedeutiche activities to the transfer of the property left at death one in the dry dock n. 4, between which the removal of the rigalleggiamento large chests and the activity of cleansing of the galleys and the present cells refrigerator to bridge 0. In the course of the fourth and last phase, the operations will be executed all to carry out inside in atmosphere which segregated and dry of the dry dock, until the complete dismantling of the property left at death one. It will be proceeded to the operations of removal of the internal preparations, the cleansing of the areas and the final demolition of all the structures and this phase will be concluded with the activities of management of the materials, transport and digestion/recovery of the materials of turns out.

Emphasizing that the company possesses all the necessary characteristics, it is from the technical point of view - infrastructural it is from that normative, in order to manage an operation that, for its nature, it demands elevated competences and fort attention to the aspects legacies to safety of the workers and the protection of the atmosphere, genoese Saint George of the Port has evidenced that the acquisition of this store clerk important will have fallen back economic on the numerous companies of the induced one that the shipbuilding vocation of the city of Genoa and the territorial excellence will be engaged in the work, valuing that operate in the section.

Satisfaction for the confidence by the Council of Ministers of the work of the Concord to Genoa is expressed by the mayor of the capital of Liguria: "I express, on behalf of the city - Marco Doria has declared - three reasons of satisfaction. In the first place because Genoa, for the industrial and harbour structures that have been able to offer, will allow to carry out this important job in Italy. According to satisfaction reason: it has been to all obvious that to Genoa exists the professionalities and the suitable structures to so complex operations and that the choice for Genoa has been based therefore on considerations of industrial character. Third reason is that the decision of the government will allow to free soon from property left at death the environmental and tourist zones of great value. For this same reason, the transfer towards Genoa will have to happen adopting, so as indicated from the ministry of the Atmosphere, all the measures and the indispensable controls to safeguard the atmosphere of the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Ligurian Sea that joins the Tuscany, the Corsica and the Liguria".