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Costa Crociere S.p.A.

Costa Crociere S.p.A., operating as Costa Cruises, is an Italian cruise line founded in 1854 and organized as a wholly owned subsidiary of Carnival Corporation & plc since 2000.

Ports of Trieste and Monfalcone see record weekend for cruise ship passengers

Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) July 12, 2022 – Last weekend, the Northern Italian ports of Trieste and Monfalcone welcomed around 20,000 cruise ship...

Port of La Spezia issues tender for new cruise ship pier

La Spezia, Italy (PortSEurope) July 7, 2022 – The Port of La Spezia has issued a tender for the construction of a new cruise ship pier on Calata Paita....

Costa Cruises looks at market in Sardinia

Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy (Ports Europe) May 12, 2022 – The cruise group Costa Cruises has held a meeting with the port authority in Cagliari as it plans...

The ‘Trieste & Monfalcone Blue Agreement’ was signed today

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) May 11, 2022 – The ‘Trieste & Monfalcone Blue Agreement’ was signed today. It is a voluntary agreement...

Seatrade Cruise Global 2022 ends in Miami

Miami, United States (PortSEurope) April 29, 2022 – The four-day Seatrade Cruise Global 2022 event has closed in Miami with visitors showing a positive...

AdSP del Mare Adriatico Meridionale (Bari) forecasts cruise ship business recovery

Bari, Italy (Ports Europe) February 17, 2022 – The Southern Italian Adriatic ports of Brindisi and Monopoli are expecting record cruise passenger seasons...

Spain’s Palma port to limit cruise ship visits

Palma, Mallorca, Spain (Ports Europe) December 28, 2021 – The port of Palma, Mallorca, plans to limit the number of cruise ship visits per day to three,...

Port of Trapani set to open new cruise terminal

Palermo, Sicily, Italy (PortSEurope) December 6, 2021 – This Friday, the Port of Trapani plans to inaugurate its new Passenger Cruise Terminal of the...

Turkish cruise attributes promoted at Seatrade Cruise Global Fair

Miami, United States (PortSEurope) October 5, 2021 – The Turkish Tourism Promotion and Development Agency (TGA) is attending at the Seatrade Cruise...

LSCT to start tests for new container facilities

La Spezia, Italy (Ports Europe) August 16, 2021 – Investigations will start soon regarding the possibility of have new dock facilities in Marina del...

MSC Cruises and Costa Crociere form new company to operate Sicilian passenger terminals

Palermo, Sicily, Italy (Ports Europe) August 2, 2021 – MSC Cruises and Costa Cruises have set bup a 50/50 jint venture to manage passenger terminals at...

Rome Cruise Terminal awarded a concession for the temporary cruise terminal at the port of Civitavecchia

Civitavecchia, Italy (Ports Europe) June 22, 2021 – Rome Cruise Terminal (RCT) has been awarded a concession for the temporary cruise terminal to quay 25...

Port of Palermo welcomes first extra large cruise ship

Palermo, Sicily, Italy (Ports Europe) June 21, 2021 – The Sammuzzo pier in Palermo port has welcomed Costa Deliziosa cruise ship, the first such vessel...

French ports ready to welcome cruise ships from June 30, Costa and MSC sailing from Marseille July 4

Marseille, France (Ports Europe) June 8, 2021 – Secretary of State for Tourism Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne has said that France will resume cruise ship visits...

PSTF 2021 digital tables global cruise industry issues as Greek, Cypriot and Israeli ports prepare to welcome passengers back

The chief executives of some of the world’s biggest cruise lines will participate in the first virtual panel discussion that will kick off the 6th Posidonia...

Costa Smeralda, the green flagship of Costa Cruises, sets sail from Savona for the first trip of 2021 

Savona, Italy (Ports Europe) May 2, 2021 – With a brief ceremony in the presence of the President of Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Ligure...

Genoa port runs Covid-19 vaccination in cruise terminal

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) February 16, 2021 – On February 13, 2021, the vaccination campaign against Coronavirus started at the second terminal of the...

Barcelona port plans future with cruise industry interests

Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) October 22, 2020 – The first deputy mayor of Barcelona City Council, Jaume Collboni, and the president of the Port, Mercè...

La Spezia port to handle first LNG bunkering operation

La Spezia, Italy (PortSEurope) October 20, 2020 – In the coming weeks, La Spezia port will carry out its first liquified natural gas (LNG) bunker...

Cruise activity resumes at Savona port

Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) October 12, 2020 – Costa Smeralda, the flagship of the LNG-powered Costa Cruises fleet, sailed last Saturday from the port of...

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