The wreckage of the Italian cruise ship the Costa Concordia is being towed to its home port of Genoa on Wednesday morning to be scrapped.<br /><br />The towing operation from the island where it sank was delayed in recent days by rough seas.<br /><br />Over the previous week it was gradually lifted from an undersea platform after being brought upright last September in one of the biggest salvage operations in maritime history.<br /><br />Thirty-two people died when the cruise liner struck the Tuscan island of Giglio in January, 2012.<br /><br />The body of an Indian waiter, Russel Rebello, has still not been found.<br /><br />The ship’s captain Francesco Schettino is on trial, where he denies charges of manslaughter, sailing too close to the shore and abandoning ship.<br /><br />One survivors’ group has described the Costa Concordia’s departure for Genoa as an important symbolic moment for those who were on board.
