COSTA CONCORDIA HULK OFFERS MAJOR SCRAP HAUL
April 1st, 2012
BY JOSEPHINE MCKENNA, IN ROME.
The salvage of the Costa Concordia cruise ship which crashed off the island of Giglio, off Tuscany, Italy, in January is due to begin soon and is expected to yield around 45,000 tonnes of scrap steel.
Owner Costa Cruises recently announced that the tender for the removal of the ship from has been awarded to the US firm Titan Salvage in partnership with the Italian company Micoperi.
The salvage and removal of the vessel which weighs 54,000 tonnes will take up to a year and cost an estimated Euro EUR300 million. Operations are ...
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