An American company, Titan Salvage, has been awarded the contract to salvage the Italian cruise liner Costa Concordia, which sank off the coast of Tuscany in January with the loss of 32 lives. Nine people have been investigated in connection with the disaster, including the captain Francesco Schettino, who's under house arrest. David Willey reports from Rome.

美国泰坦打捞公司获得签约以打捞意大利“协和号”游轮，该游轮于1月份在托斯卡纳区海滨沉没，造成32人丧生。9名与这场灾难相关的人员正在接受调查，包括目前被软禁的船长Francesco Schettino。David Willey在罗马报道。

It's expected to take about a year to raise the 114,000-tonne cruise liner, which is lying on its side in shallow water just outside the tiny tourist ford. The vessel will be re-floated by placing airbags under the hull after a huge gash on the port side has been repaired. It's not yet clear whether the Costa Concordia will be repaired or will be scrapped after it's been towed away to an Italian port. Fears that the shipwreck might cause an environmental disaster because of leaked fuel have proved unfounded.

要把这艘重达114000吨的游轮拖到岸上，大概需要一年时间，这艘船现在停在一个小旅游浅滩区外面的浅水边。要把这艘船浮起来，需要先修好左舷上的巨大裂缝，然后在船体下放置气囊。尚不清楚“协和号”被拖到意大利海港后，会得到修复还是报废。由于尚未找到漏掉的燃油，人们担心船体残骸会造成环境灾难。