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The plans to remove the cruise ship the Costa Concordia were approved by Italian civil authorities Tues., May 15. The two companies undertaking the project, Titan Salvage of the U.S. and Micoperi of Italy, intend to refloat the entire ship.
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When the Costa Concordia, the massive Italian cruise liner that sunk Jan. 13, went down, over 4,200 passengers and crew were aboard. Thirty-two did not survive the tragedy but only 30 bodies have been recovered.
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The contract has been awarded to remove the sunken Italian cruise liner, the Costa Concordia from rocks off of the island of Giglio and an American company, Titan Salvage, will head the operation. The owners of the ship said it will be removed whole.
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The Dutch company that removed all the oil from the tanks of the partially submerged Costa Concordia off the coast of Italy's Giglio Island, Smit Salvage, is now removing debris from the ocean floor around the cruise liner.
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Efforts to clear the mess that is the sunken Italian cruise ship, the Costa Concordia, continue with the latest news being all 17 tanks have had their oil safely removed. As of March 24 Smit Salvage was moving on to clearing the ocean floor of debris.
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The Dutch maritime company that is removing the oil from the sunken Italian cruise ship, the Costa Concordia, says it can refloat the huge ship and has put in a bid to do so. But the operation cannot be done cheaply.
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After waiting for the search for survivors to end, then being forced to wait 2 more weeks during bad weather, the company hired to empty the fuel tanks of the Costa Concordia, has emptied two tanks in just two days.
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Smit Salvage, the Dutch company hired to extract the fuel from the Italian cruise liner 'The Costa Concordia,' began doing so Sunday and said that while the weather holds they will continue "round the clock." So far, the removal operation is going well.
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An update of the Costa Concordia disaster has the company that operated the ship, Costa Cruises, announcing it has asked 10 specialist companies to submit tenders on removing the massive cruise liner.
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Bad weather on Saturday forced Smit Salvage, the Dutch company contracted to pump out the 2,300 tonnes of heavy fuel and 200 tonnes of diesel oil from the Costa Concordia, to delay the start of the operation.
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The operation to remove the wreck of the Costa Concordia will be the biggest of its kind, at a cost reported to be at least $300m, according to salvage firms and the ship's owners.
The owners of the capsized Costa Concordia say work to re-float the cruise ship is to start in May, and will take a year.
Salvage workers in Italy have begun pumping fuel from the cruise liner Costa Concordia, which ran aground off Tuscany a month ago.
 The modestly upgraded Montreal Canadiens will try to salvage a victory on their three-game road trip when they visit the Tampa Bay Lightning on Tuesday night.
 Barcelona held off a spirited Real Madrid fightback to salvage a 2-2 draw Wednesday that was enough to see it through to the Copa del Rey semifinals.
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