Wrecked Italian liner to be moved by year's end

The wreck of Italian cruise liner Costa Concordia will be moved from Giglio Island by the end of the year, the top rescue official said Sunday.

The ship's owner Costa Crociere is readying a call for tenders, and the few companies capable of the job will quickly respond with recovery plans, said the head of Italy's civil protection agency, Franco Gabrielli. "These two stages should take about two months," Gabrielli told the media, after which, "taking into account the constraints that weather and sea conditions may impose, it will take seven to 10 months to remove the wreck," he said.

AFP