Efforts will get underway today to lift and move the Costa Concordia.

It's been nearly two and a half years since the cruise liner ran aground off the Italian island of Giglio.

32 people lost their lives when the ship went down carrying more than 4-thousand 200 hundred passenger and crew in January 2012.

The captain is still facing multiple criminal charges in connection with the disaster and could spend decades behind bars.

The 290 metre long vessel will be taken to a scrapyard in Naples.