The giant hulk of the Costa Concordia was set to make its final voyage this week and finally remove from the Italian coastline one of the maritime world’s least glorious symbols.
The 114,500-gt, 2006-built cruiseship has been dragged off the sea bottom off the island of Giglio and will be towed to Genoa.
One good thing that might come out of this is the decision to dismantle the vessel locally in an environmentally sensitive way.
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