MAY 7, 2014 — Efforts to arrange the wreck of the Costa Concordia for refloating have run into one other downside.
As we reported beforehand, the Titan Micoperi salvage consortium has begun putting in the 19 sponsons that shall be used to refloat the cruise ship, utilizing the Conquest MB1 crane barge.
Operations to put in the primary of the sponsons had accomplished when work was placed on maintain April 30 because the committee overseeing the venture sought additional info on plans for the last word disposal of the wreck.
On May 2, Titan Micoperi received permission to renew the operation and two extra sponsons have been put in.
Yesterday, nevertheless, got here the information that the primary sponson to be put in had been knocked out of place which, media reviews mentioned was resulting from a tangled chain.
Today, Titan Micoperi issued an replace on the issue that mentioned that the sponson is being stored in place with the assist of the Conquest crane as technicians finishing up operations to empty it of ballast water. It says the scenario is presently beneath management and that the sponson shall be transported to a shipyard for technical assessments and needed repairs.
This will imply that the crane barge is not going to be obtainable for additional set up work till it has loaded the broken sponson onto the barge that may take it to the shipyard.
When that’s executed, work on putting in the remaining sponsons will resume and the primary sponson shall be reinstalled later.
The Titan Micoperi replace additionally notes that when the sponson received knocked misplaced it triggered minor damages to the adjoining sponson, which is now being assessed,
