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Re: Carnival owned cruise ship Costa Concordia runs aground off Italy
« Reply #465 on: June 12, 2014, 03:40:02 AM »
"Officials are hoping to start towing the infamous cruise ship on July 20, 2014 to Genoa where the ship will be dismantled and recycled. Workers are currently on the 4th stage of the removal process.

The cleanup and removal of the ship is expected to cost Carnival Corporation over $1 billion US dollars. The parbuckling alone cost $600 million according to chief financial officer of Carnival, Beniamino Maltese."

http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_06_11/Costa-Concordia-cruise-ship-last-journey-set-for-July-20-5473/
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Re: Carnival owned cruise ship Costa Concordia runs aground off Italy
« Reply #466 on: July 04, 2014, 06:12:55 AM »
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Re: Carnival owned cruise ship Costa Concordia runs aground off Italy
« Reply #467 on: July 04, 2014, 09:20:08 PM »
"ROME — The wreck of the Costa Concordia cruise liner is set to be refloated within 10 days, to be towed away from the Italian island where it ran aground and capsized in 2012, the group organizing the removal said yesterday."

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/national_world/2014/07/04/cruise-ship-that-wrecked-in-2012-is-set-to-be-towed.html
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Re: Carnival owned cruise ship Costa Concordia runs aground off Italy
« Reply #468 on: July 14, 2014, 07:10:41 PM »
"Italy’s Costa Concordia cruise ship on Monday began floating on its own for the first time since it crashed in January 2012, as an unprecedented salvage operation got underway to raise it.

The ship measuring 290 metres (951 feet) — the length of three football fields and twice as big as the Titanic — is slowly being refloated on the island of Giglio to be towed away for scrapping in Genoa.

“The ship is floating,” Franco Porcellacchia, the chief engineer in charge of the operation, told reporters.

“It is now about one metre off the underwater platform it was lying on,” he said, adding that it would be raised another metre before being shifted towards the open sea."

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/kt-article-display-1.asp?section=international&xfile=data/international/2014/July/international_July254.xml

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Re: Carnival owned cruise ship Costa Concordia runs aground off Italy
« Reply #469 on: July 14, 2014, 07:19:48 PM »
"Air will slowly be pumped into 30 tanks or “sponsons” attached to both sides of the 290-metre Concordia to expel the water inside and raise the ship.

It will then be towed away from the shore and moored using anchors and cables. Thirty-six steel cables and 56 chains will hold the sponsons in place.

“The risks are that the ship could bend as it is raised, or the chains underneath it could snap,” Sloane told AFP before the operation.

“There will be 42 people on board during the first manoeuvre. If disaster strikes we will evacuate through emergency escapes on the bow and stern,” he said."

http://www.straitstimes.com/news/world/europe/story/shipwrecked-italy-cruise-ship-costa-concordia-rise-the-waves-20140714

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Re: Carnival owned cruise ship Costa Concordia runs aground off Italy
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Re: Carnival owned cruise ship Costa Concordia runs aground off Italy
« Reply #471 on: July 16, 2014, 03:07:11 AM »
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Re: Carnival owned cruise ship Costa Concordia runs aground off Italy
« Reply #472 on: July 18, 2014, 06:00:14 AM »
"GIGLIO, Italy (AP) — The shipwrecked Costa Concordia was successfully refloated Monday in preparation to be towed away for scrapping, 30 months after it struck a reef and capsized, killing 32 people.

Authorities expressed satisfaction that the operation to float the Concordia from an underwater platform had proceeded without a hitch. Technicians later shifted the massive cruise ship some 30 meters (yards) before ending the day's operations.

"Another day, and the worst is over," said the head of the salvage operation, Nick Sloane."

http://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2014/07/14/shipwrecked-concordia-floated-for-tow-to-genova

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Re: Carnival owned cruise ship Costa Concordia runs aground off Italy
« Reply #473 on: July 18, 2014, 06:12:03 AM »
"The entire operation to remove the Concordia from the reef and float it to Genova, where it will be scrapped, will cost a total of 1.5 billion euros ($2 billion), Costa Crociere SpA CEO Michael Tamm told reporters."

http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/nation-and-world/capsized-italian-cruise-ship-costs-2-billion-reef-removal

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Re: Carnival owned cruise ship Costa Concordia runs aground off Italy
« Reply #474 on: July 19, 2014, 08:35:03 PM »
"Giglio Island:  Strong winds have slowed work to refloat and tow the Costa Concordia cruise ship from Italy's Giglio Island which could delay a planned departure on Monday, salvage workers said."

http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/bad-weather-slows-italy-cruise-ship-wreck-removal-560916



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Re: Carnival owned cruise ship Costa Concordia runs aground off Italy
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Re: Carnival owned cruise ship Costa Concordia runs aground off Italy
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Re: Carnival owned cruise ship Costa Concordia runs aground off Italy
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Re: Carnival owned cruise ship Costa Concordia runs aground off Italy
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Re: Carnival owned cruise ship Costa Concordia runs aground off Italy
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