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Completed the installation of the last one of the 30 necessary large chests for the rigalleggiamento of Costa Concordia
The operation - Costa Crociere has explained - will be possible between ten days
July 3, 2014
Costa Crociere has announced that this afternoon is completed the installation on the side left of the property left at death one of Costa Concordia of the last lacking large chest, the P1, and that now, waiting for the authorization by the Observatory of Monitoring, the technicians will be able at the beginning to start the phase of test of the systems in sight of the rigalleggiamento of the ship been shipwrecked of 2012 on Isola del Giglio.
The crocieristica company has explained that currently the flanks of the property left at death one are the 30 large chests installed on both and that, when it is given the go-ahead to the operation of rigalleggiamento of the property left at death one, than - it has specified Costa Crociere - will be possible between ten days, will come progressively emptied from the ballast water by a pneumatic system, so supplying the thrust necessary to make to rigalleggiare the hull. Finished the operation, the part of the property left at death one that will remain submergeeed will be of about 18,5 meters. To that point the Concord will be able to leave Isola del Giglio towards Genoa, where it will be started on digestion and money laundering.
"With the installation of the last large chest - he has emphasized the managing director of Costa Crociere, Michael Thamm - the countdown for the rigalleggiamento and the definitive departure of the Concord from Isola del Giglio begins. Now - it has added - all our energies are engaged in concluding with success this ingegneristica challenge unprecedented and to respect a precise engagement: to remove property left at death of the Concord the first possible one in the maximum respect of the atmosphere and safety".
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Costa Crociere has announced that this afternoon is completed the installation on the side left of the property left at death one of Costa Concordia of the last lacking large chest, the P1, and that now, waiting for the authorization by the Observatory of Monitoring, the technicians will be able at the beginning to start the phase of test of the systems in sight of the rigalleggiamento of the ship been shipwrecked of 2012 on Isola del Giglio.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
