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Costa Concordia Insurance Payouts Skyrocket
Insurance payouts are reportedly about to top usd$1.1 billion as workers continue to attempt to salvage the ship. The Reinsurer Munich Re said that the ship had a hull value of usd$500 million. The...
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Costa Concordia Emerges from the Mediterranean Sea
This morning salvage workers began righting the partially capsized Costa Concordia. She is currently being hauled upright by hydraulic cables. Once upright, she’ll sit on a submerged structure before...
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Costa Concordia now Upright
For the first time since January 2012, the Costa Concordia is now upright. You can see in the above photo, from the live video stream, that the water line is now one deck below the bridge. That’s...
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View of the Costa Concordia’s Damage
After 19 hours, the the Parbuckling is done. Originally planned as a 10 hour operation, the salvage team ran into some snags and it went slower than anticipated. We can now see what 20 months under...
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Costa Concordia Removal Details Emerge
Dockwise has announced that they have been awarded the contract to remove the now upright Costa Concordia. The Dutch company will sail the Dockwise Vanguard to Giglio where the Concordia will be...
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UPDATE: Cruise Critic is reporting that a port in Britain is among 12 ports/groups that are in the process of bidding to accept the Concordia. Teesside Environmental Reclamation and Recycling facility...
View ArticleCosta Concordia to be Removed July 18th.
EDITORIAL NOTE: The date for the removal is July 18th. Not June as mentioned in the article below. Origionaly Published on: May 13, 2014 @ 14:34 Officials in Italy have announced June 18th as the date...
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Costa Concordia to be Scrapped in Italy
Several publications are reporting that the Costa Concordia will be scrapped in Genoa, Italy. Ironically enough, Genoa is her port of registration. As is the custom in an Italian legal case, the ship...
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Last Minute Changes to the Costa Concordia Removal
While the countdown is nearing its end, there has been a last minute change to the refloating of the Costa Concordia. Originally, the project managers chartered the Dockwise Vanguard to carry the...
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LIVE: Costa Concordia Reflaoting
UPDATE 11:27am: via gcaptain: Water samples taken in and around the refloated Costa Concordia shipwreck have shown no signs of critical levels of pollution, project officials confirmed Wednesday....
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