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The refloating of the Costa Concordia has been put off from June until July 18-20, representatives of the Italian cruise line Costa Crociere said Monday.
An international salvage group is attaching floats to the recently righted carcass of the huge liner that hit a rock on Tuscany's Giglio Island in January 2012, foundered and killed 32 in Italy's worst postwar maritime disaster.
The floats must be filled with air to make the Concordia buoyant before it can be towed away for scrap in Italy, the Middle East or the Far East.
The salvage effort recently ran into trouble when one of the floats buckled after the giant liner was pulled upright.
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