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Costa Crociere emphasizes that the only suitable solution in Italy for dismantling of the Concord is its transfer to Genoa
"Piombino - it has explained the CEO Thamm - does not constitute a valid alternative because of the substantial delays in the operations of adaptation of the port"
June 25, 2014
Al term of the today's Conference of the Services that would have had to be decisive, but that it is not served instead deciding the destination of the property left at death one of the Costa Concordia cruise ship in sight of its dismantling, the Costa Crociere company has restated the motivations in support of own project of transfer of property left at death to Genoa for its demolition and money laundering. "Genoa - it has observed the company - is the only Italian port in which the activity of demolition and money laundering of the property left at death one they can be under way immediately counting on the best possible technologies and on the most elevated standard than environmental safety".
Costa Crociere has remembered that "the selection of the project for digestion and the money laundering of the property left at death one of the Concord introduced from the consortium composed from Saipem and Saint George of the Port is the result of the technical appraisals of the proposals received from Italian and international companies in the context of the launch international contest at the end last year" and that "the choice of the project is the result of relative the technical considerations to the validity of the proposed methodology, the reliability is the experience of the companies and the involved professionalities, the certainty and the rapidity of the outcome, the environmental sustainability in all the phases of job".
"As company - it has emphasized the managing director of Costa Crociere, Michael Thamm - we have taken a precise engagement that we intend to honor: to remove property left at death of the Concord the first possible one, in total safety and with the maximum attention in confronts of the atmosphere. In order to make it we have made use of the best competences, of the most advanced technological solutions and resources financial institutions unprecedented. Within three weeks - it has explained - we will be ready to start the operations of towing of the Concord from Isola del Giglio, in a period that statistically anticipates the conditions more favorable meteomarine. Considered the temporal window, the only solution is to transport the property left at death one in a place that is equipped in order to start the operations of demolition with the most elevated environmental standards. Up to now the technical choices carried out by Costa Crociere have been revealed corrected, from the selection and allocation of the project of removal to the Consortium Titan Micoperi, to the happened rectification of the property left at death one to september. We believe therefore of being able to deserve the confidence of the authorities also in the final phase. The only objective for which we work is to conclude this project in the best one of the ways".
"The expressed positive opinion from 17 between competent ministries and public bodies, called today to supply own technical appraisals during Conference of the services - it has continued Thamm - relieves to us on the validity of the choice of Costa Crociere for the Genoa project. The project Concord remains immodificato and is online with that introduced during Conference of the services two years ago that it previewed the transport of the property left at death one to towing in an Italian port equipped with dry docks for digestion and necessary infrastructures".
Thamm has confirmed that the crocieristica company rejects Piombino which destination of the property left at death one, because - it has specified - "it does not constitute a valid alternative because of the substantial delays in the operations of adaptation of the port".
"We are confidantes - it has concluded the managing director of Costa Crociere - than the Council of Ministers, that it is called now to take a final decision, can estimate positively the solidity of the project introduced for the demolition of the property left at death one to Genoa".
The crocieristica company has remembered at last that the current one cronoprogramma of the project of removal of the property left at death one previews that the rigalleggiamento of the ship can be under way within July half, by authority received of the Observatory.
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