Shipwrecked Concordia to be removed in June


January 10, 2014 at 1:45p.m.

Shipwrecked Concordia to be removed in June

ROME (AP) — The Costa Concordia cruise ship wreck will be removed in June from its watery graveyard off Tuscany and taken to a port to be dismantled, the final phase of an unprecedented 600 million-euro ($817 million) salvage effort. At a news conference today, Italy’s civil protection chief and Costa Crociere officials gave the timetable and the rundown of what was needed for the ship to be refloated. They spoke just days before the second anniversary of the ship’s Jan. 13, 2012, grounding that killed 32 people.