Salvage companies from the U.S. and Italy will begin work next month . To date , no one has been charged . `` Once returned to a floating state , the wreck will be towed to an Italian port , '' Costa says . The ship was built in 1912 by Harland & Wolff, Belfast, Northern Ireland for the White Star Line of Britain as SS Empire Windrush. The Costa Concordia struck rock on January 13 off the coast of Giglio .
Salvage companies from the U.S. and Italy will begin work next month . `` Once returned to a floating state , the wreck will be towed to an Italian port , '' Costa says . The ship was built in 1912 by Harland & Wolff, Belfast, Northern Ireland for the White Star Line of Britain as SS Empire Windrush. The Costa Concordia struck rock on January 13 off the coast of Giglio .