I tried to check today about whether the salvage arrangements for Costa Concordia have been announced as originally promised. It sounds like the original plans have run into delays.
I found the beginning of an article on the Lloyds List website:
It is possible to sign up to Lloyds List for a free one week trial but I did that soon after the tragedy and the Lloyds List website refuses to let me have a second free week! So I cannot access the rest of the article. I think the full subscription is fairly expensive and since I am not involved with the shipping industry, I don’t wish to pay for news about Costa Concordia.
Another part of the Lloyds List website - with the link to the same article above - says that, “Capsized druiseship likely to be the most complex and expensive salvage to date.” I think most people already knew that!
The other day I read that they have now removed all the fuel from the ship
I suspect that, originally, Costa wanted to reassure the people of Giglio Island that they would not hang around for a year before doing anything about arranging for the wreck to be removed, meaning that it would be two or three years before Giglio Island returns to normal. Equally, I did wonder about some of the suggestions that Giglio’s ordinary tourism industry would only be disrupted for the remainder of 2012. That idea sounded a tad optimistic to me.
Equally, if I were the Mayor of Giglio, I would now be pushing for some definite plans and a definite time-scale. The wreck is becoming an eye-sore that he and his fellow islanders have to look at every day. It is too easy to ignore the islanders’ concerns when one is sitting in an office in Genoa or elsewhere. The islanders matter the most because this wreck should not be cluttering up their shoreline. In their shoes, I would put up with disruption for the remainder of 2012 but I would be very annoyed - and I would not simply put up a meek and passive response -if I heard that it will be sometime in 2013 or beyound before all trace of the wreck is finally removed.