Costa Crociere, Italo-American consortium Titan-Micoperi, and local Italian officials announced the details of the Costa Concordia removal plan. The work will be carried out for about 12 months and will refloat the partially capsized vessel. Titan Salvage, the American salvage company who are part of the large Crowley Group, will work in a joint partnership [...]
Costa Cruises and Italian officials have announced the plan that was chosen for the salvage of the Concordia. Still laying partially capsized off of Giglio, the vessel recently had all her bunkers (fuel) pumped out as the the first phase of the recovery was complete. The plan that was chosen for the next operation was [...]
Costa and local Italian officials announced today that they have finally pumped all bunkers (fuel) out of the ship. The operation began on February 12th and workers have been removing the fuel oil around the clock ever since. Total cost of the operation is said to be in the couple of million euros. Costa President [...]
UPDATE: This morning brought the news that there are now 5 bodies found and not the original 3. They are said to all have been found lying on the seabed, underneath the submerged superstructure. Italian officials have just found three more bodies inside the wreck of the Costa Concordia. No word yet on their identities [...]
News broke today that apparently the ships bell has been stolen. The all brass fixture with “COSTA CONCORDIA” written on it, was taken somewhere around 2 weeks ago. Police say they don’t have any suspects, but do have some leads. The wreck is being guarded by police and coastguard 24/7. Imagine how much this would [...]
Costa Crociere S.p.A. along with the Civil Protection Agency announced that they received a total of 6 possible plans from 10 of the largest salvage companies. No details were given but it is known that all plans give a 10-12 month duration. That seems way to long just to get the ship righted.
It only took until the second paragraph of Carnival’s latest SEC filing for the word Concordia to be brought up. For the first Quarter Carnival is reporting an expense of $29 million including a $10 million insurance deductible. They also recorded an insurance recoverable of $515 million, which essentially wrote off the value. They deemed [...]
Divers inside the partially capsized hull of the Concordia, have apparently found more bodies today. The civil protection agency, who are involved in the operation, stated under anonymity that one of those bodies includes a 5 year old girl. They went on to say that due to their location, deep inside the vessel, it will [...]
Discovery Channel will air their one hour special tonight about the Concordia Disaster. Just like National Geographic’s, I’ll be live blogging the show. Stay tuned…..
CIN has an update on the bunker (fuel) salvage operation: The Concordia Emergency Commissioner’s Office and Costa Crociere have announced that the pumping of fuel from the Costa Concordia has been continuing around the clock since 5 pm on Feb. 12, in accordance with the plan devised by the Neri/Smit Salvage team. From the time [...]
