Maersk may need to save the Costa Concordia

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Maersk may need to save the Costa Concordia

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The search for missing persons from the disaster of the Costa Concordia is not officially canceled yet, although weather and movements of the ship at intervals has suspended the search.

Yet the focus is increasingly directed to salvage the sinking cruise ship, the news agency Reuters.

One of the companies that can salvage the ship, the salvage company Svitzer owned by AP Moller-Maersk.

A spokesman for Svitzer told Reuters that Svitzer might bid on the task of bringing the Costa Concordia nice.

Working with Containers Currently, Svitzer also engaged in another task also has the world’s attention. It is Svitzser trying to salvage container from the ship Rena, who is broken over by New Zealand.

– I guess they are trying to salvage the ship intact, says Ted Thompson from the organization CLIA, which works to promote tourism with cruise ships in the U.S..

– Going back to Pearl Harbor, most ships salvaged here, not broken up, he adds, referring to the war-ships that were bombed during the Japanese surprise attack in 1941.

– Many were raised intact, repaired and sent to war. So it is possible to salvage the ship intact, he said.

According to Reuters, it took just a few days after the Costa Concordia was wrecked last Friday evening, before experts from salvage companies and insurance companies popped up on the tiny Italian island of Giglio. They should look at the Costa Concordia, which is – perhaps uncertain – on a sandbank at the island.

Ship owner determines The decision about what will happen to the Costa Concordia will lie with the owner, Costa Cruises, insurance companies and salvage specialists.

task then sent out to tender and it is here that it is expected that Svitzer will bid.

But so will other of the world’s leading salvage companies, Reuters, and it is among other Dutch Smit Salvage and American Titan Salvage.

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