THE large scale removal of around 1.5 million litres of fuel from onboard the ill-fated Costa Concordia has now begun, after bad weather delayed the project by two weeks. The process, led by a Dutch maritime salvage company, Smit, began over the weekend with underwater pumping of the first of...
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THE large scale removal of around 1.5 million
litres of fuel from onboard the ill-fated Costa
Concordia has now begun, after bad weather
delayed the project by two weeks.
The process, led by a Dutch maritime salvage
company, Smit, began over the weekend with
underwater pumping of the first of 15 tanks.
It is expected that the fuel removal process
will take around a month to complete.
MEANWHILE the cruise line has extended its
compensation offer acceptance deadline from
27 Jan to 31 Mar (CW 31 Jan).
The offer includes a payment of €11,000 for
guests onboard when the ship sunk; whilst
guests who were injured and families of
missing or deceased victims will be granted
compensation on an individual basis.
The offer extension comes as the result of
guest requests to give them more time to
evaluate the proposal.
Guests who do not take up the offer will be
able to sue the cruise line separately.
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