The wreck of the Costa Concordia
will be dismantled in Turkey or Italy, Civil Protection chief
Franco Gabrielli said Thursday.
Gabrielli told parliament that Ankara had presented the
best offer, $40 million, compared to a whopping $200 million by
the Italian port of Civitavecchia.
He said Genoa and Piombino had the technical means to do
the job.
"We hope an Italian port will take care of the Concordia's
dismantlement," Gabrielli said.
The Concordia went down off Tuscany in January 2012
killing 32 people in Italy's worst postwar maritime disasters.
Ship captain Francesco Schettino is on trial for allegedly
causing the disaster and abandoning ship too soon.
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