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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.

Costa Group: €12.6 billion and over 63,000 jobs generated in Europe

The figures are drawn from a study conducted by Deloitte & Touche, the University of Genoa and the University of Hamburg, which takes a snapshot of the...

MSC Cruises joins Genoa Blue Agreement

Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) July 16, 2019 – MSC Cruises has today joined the “Genoa Blue Agreement” operated by Autorita’ di Sistema...

Costa Cruises signs Genoa port Blue Agreement

Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) July 14, 2019 – Costa Cruises has signed the so-called Genoa Blue Agreement requiring marine gasoil with a sulphur content not...

Marseille port gives ESI Awards to environmental shippers

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) June 17, 2019 – On Wednesday, June 12, 2019, Hervé Martel, President of the Executive Board of the Port of Marseille...

Barcelona port handles its first LNG-fired cruise ship

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 26, 2019 – Barcelona port handled on April 26 its first cruise ship powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG), the...

Las Palmas port, Costa Cruises discuss 2019/2020 cruise season objectives

Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) April 11, 2019 – Las Palmas port and Costa Cruises have discussed the objectives for the 2019/2020 cruise...

La Spezia port’s cruise traffic to soar 48% in 2019

La Spezia, Italy (Ports Europe) April 11, 2019 – La Spezia port expects to handle about 700,000 cruise passengers in 2019, up 48% compared to last year,...

Royal Caribbean, MSC Cruises, Costa Cruises to build €41 million cruise terminal in La Spezia

La Spezia, Italy (Ports Europe) April 9, 2019 – Royal Caribbean, MSC Cruises and Costa Cruises plan to invest a total of €41 million ($46.2 million)...

Costa Cruises to relaunch regular calls at Genoa port

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 26, 2019 – Costa Cruises plans to relaunch the regular calls of its ships in the port of Genoa.  Andrea Doria...

MSC considers construction of own luxury cruises terminal at Genoa port

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 5, 2019 – MSC Cruises is interested in the construction of its own terminal for luxury cruises at Genoa port, the president...

Italy-China business event held in Trieste

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) March 4, 2019 – Trieste has hosted a “China-Italy Business Relationship” round table, an event designed to...

Fincantieri-built Costa Venezia comes into service

Monfalcone, February 28, 2019 – Today, at the Fincantieri shipyard in Monfalcone, in the presence of Matteo Salvini, Interior Minister and Deputy Prime...

La Spezia port to award cruise terminal operation in next two weeks

La Spezia, Italy (Ports Europe) February 25, 2019 – La Spezia port expects to award to a consortium of Costa Crociere, the Mediterranean Shipping...

Analysts expect new growth record for cruise industry in 2019

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) January 25, 2019 – The cruise industry will continue to grow in 2019, breaking a historical record: 24 new ships will be...

AdSP del Mar Ligure Orientale (La Spezia) receives single bid for cruise passenger station project

La Spezia, Italy (PortSEurope) January 15, 2019 – Autorita’di Sistema Portuale del Mar Ligure Orientale (AdSP – Eastern Ligurian Sea Port Authority)...

RCM Costruzioni srl and Fincosit srl awarded Savona port dredging contract

Savona, Italy (PortSEurope) January 9, 2019 – A consortium of RCM Costruzioni srl and Fincosit srl have been awarded a contract to deepen the main quay...

Costa Cruises extends concession at Savona port to 2044

Savona, Italy (PortSEurope) December 14, 2018 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Ligure Occidentale (AdSP – Western Ligurian Sea Port...

Costa Cruises launches 2020/21 itineraries

Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) December 11, 2018 – Costa Cruises has launched its itineraries for the period April 2020 to April 2021, which will now be...

Costa Cruises to operate “slow cruises” from Toulon port

Toulon, France (PortSEurope) November 30, 2018 – Italy’s Costa Cruises will renew its “slow cruises” from Toulon port in 2019. Two...

Costa Crociere and the Food Bank start project to distribute unserved foods between NGOs in Barcelona

Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) November 27, 2018 – Cruise ship company Costa Crociere and the Food Bank has started a project to distribute unserved...

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