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Costa Cruises will offer the first-ever round-trip world cruise from China in 2014. Departing Shanghai March 22, Costa Atlantica will sail an 83-day journey that spans five continents and three oceans, and calls at 23 destinations in 16 countries. The 2,680-guest, 85,700-ton Costa Atlantica will first stop at Vietnam, then take a westerly course [...]
Costa Cruises celebrates their 65th anniversary today, which is 65 years to the day since the first cruise ship, Anna C, departed from Genoa, Italy to South America with 768 passengers. That voyage made Costa Cruises history. “Over the course of nearly seven decades, Costa Cruises has created a unique and popular style of cruising [...]
This morning at 7 a.m. (CET), as Costa Voyager was en route to Durazzo, Albania, for its maiden call at that port city, a boat adrift without power and in obvious distress was spotted from the bridge about 15 miles off the coast. Costa Voyager’s crew rescued two young men in poor condition from the [...]
When Costa Concordia sank last year off the Tuscan Coast, one of the biggest questions that loomed was – what will happen to the ship? It started last spring when maritime salvage company Titan Salvage, in partnership with the Italian firm Micoperi, was awarded the job of refloating and removing the stricken liner. Titan Salvage, [...]
It’s been one year since Costa Concordia sunk off the Tuscan Coast (hear our broadcast recounting the events with a passenger), claiming 32 lives and teaching the cruise lines some stern lessons. Though 4,229 passengers escaped the half-sunken ship, this case is far from closed. So fast forward 365 days, where do we stand? The [...]
Costa Cruises is offering six new itineraries for the 2013-14 winter season that span the Canary Islands and North Africa, United Arab Emirates, eastern and western Mediterranean, the Caribbean and South America. Costas global strategy for the 2013-14 winter season focuses on supporting development of emerging markets as well as continuing to offer the lines [...]
The holiday season is in full swing, and to celebrate the 12 Days of Christmas Costa Cruises is holding a 12-day holiday sale featuring the lowest fares of the season on popular Mediterranean itineraries. Dec. 10-22 the line will showcase deals on eastern and western Mediterranean cruises departing between January and May 2013, making [...]
The first block of the hull was laid today at Fincantieri’s Marghera, Italy, shipyard forming the central part of Costa Diadema, the future flagship of Costa Cruises. Diadema in Italian means “tiara” and the name was selected for the new ship that will serve as the crown jewel and flagship of the Costa Cruises fleet. [...]
Costa Cruises, in partnership with Titan/Micoperi, launched a website today that provides a wealth of information and images relating to the Costa Concordia wreck-removal project at www.theparbucklingproject.com. “Parbuckling” is the technical term for the process of rotating the wreck into an upright position — one of the most complex and crucial phases of [...]
Costa Cruises received top billing in Porthole Cruise Magazine’s 2012 Readers’ Choice Awards. The Italian cruise line was cited in two categories: Best Mediterranean Itineraries and Best Asia-Pacific Itineraries. Porthole Cruise Magazine’s Readers’ Choice Awards are determined by thousands of the publication’s readers who vote on their favorite cruise lines in a variety of categories. [...]
Costa Concordia crew members were recently named Seafarer of the Year by Lloyd’s Register of Ships at the Lloyd’s List Global Awards 2012. The awards are given in 14 categories and selected by a panel of 10 shipping experts. Lloyd’s List editors wrote: “When the cruise ship Costa Concordia struck a reef off the island [...]
So long to the days of endless stateroom categories on Costa ships. Beginning in December 2012 Costa will have four categories for staterooms – Classic, Premium, Samsara and Suites – offering price points and amenities at every level. “By reducing our cabin categories down to four, we’re hoping to eliminate a lot of the frustration [...]
Costa Cruises has been recognized for its efforts in and dedication to environmental protection with the Go Green Award 2012 — The Most Devoted Go Green Organization, presented by Weekend Weekly, one of Hong Kong’s most popular travel magazines. This is the first time Costa Cruises has received the Go Green Award for its record [...]
Costa Cruises — the first Western cruise line to enter the Asian market in 2006 — took center stage during the “National Day of Italy” today at the Yeosu International Expo in Korea. The 2,394-guest Costa Victoria berthed for the occasion at a wharf set up by the expo organizers inside the exhibition area and [...]
The Sustainable Cruise waste-management project co-funded by the European Commission through the LIFE+ Program, the European Union’s funding instrument for environmental projects, is under way aboard the 114,500-ton Costa Pacifica. With the 3,780-guest Costa Pacifica serving as the first pilot, this project will focus on reducing three main categories of waste: Cardboard boxes, glass bottles, [...]
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