ROUGH CUT - NO REPORTER NARRATION<br /> <br />The rusty hulk of the Costa Concordia was nearing the end of its final journey on Sunday (27 July) as it headed to a port near Genoa before being broken up for scrap.<br /> <br />The cruise liner began its journey to the scrapyard on Wednesday, after a two-year salvage operation off the Italian island where the cruise liner capsized two years ago, killing 32 people.<br /> <br />Boats sounded horns and church bells rang as a tug boat slowly pulled the wreck of the liner, which was around two-and-a half times the size of the Titanic, away from the holiday island of Giglio, accompanied by a convoy of 14 vessels.<br /> <br />Salvage workers gathered in bars at the port, drinking beer and smoking huge cigars, to celebrate after completing one of the largest maritime salvage operations in history.<br /> <br />The 114,500-tonne wreck was once a gleaming white luxury liner until it sank off Giglio in January 2012 after sailing too close to shore.<br /> <br />Despite intermittent bad
