Costa Concordia to be demolished Time-lapse footage shows the wreck of the Costa Concordia being slowly raised off a rock shelf. Courtesy Reuters THE team leading the Costa Concordia salvage operation has revealed they will begin removing the stricken cruise liner from near the Italian island of Giglio in June - before it is demolished. The country's environment minister Andrea Orlando and experts disclosed the details of the next phase of the mammoth salvage operation at a news conference in Rome. The 114,000-ton ship was hauled upright from its partially submerged position in September last year in a complicated 19-hour salvage operation off the island of Giglio in Italy. More than 1,000 concrete stacks and six underwater platforms were used to keep the vessel stable. It is expected to be towed away from the Mediterranean holiday island by the summer and eventually broken up for scrap. Four photos of the Costa Concordia, after the cruise ship ran aground and keeled over off the Isola del Giglio taken on January 14, 2012. The seven-day Mediterranean cruise turned to tragedy just hours after the vessel, packed with more than 4,000 passengers and crew had left the port of Civitavecchia in January 2012. The wreck is to be inspected for the first time since its fatal 2012 accident, after an Italian judge agreed to let experts climb aboard to collect fresh evidence. On January 23, a delegation is to inspect the bridge of the vessel to check for any remaining electronic apparatuses and to look at the on-board lifts. The wreck of Italy's Costa Concordia cruise ship which begins to emerge from water near the harbour of Giglio Porto.