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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 Crociere presents upgrade proposals for cruise buildings in Genoa port

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) August 7, 2018 – Functional improvements and a new restyling of the maritime station are part of the plans submitted by Costa...

Costa Cruises names managing director for Spain, Portugal

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) July 27, 2018 – Italy’s Costa Cruises has appointed Francesco Muglia as Managing Director for Spain and Portugal. Muglia...

AdSP Palermo to present development plan

Palermo, Italy (Ports Europe) July 18, 2018 – Pasqualino Monti, president of Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare di Sicilia Occidentale (AdSP...

La Spezia port set for waterfront development

La Spezia, Italy (PortSEurope) June 19, 2018 – The President of the Liguria Region Giovanni Toti, The Mayor of La Spezia, Pierluigi Peracchini, the...

Civitavecchia inaugurates new Amerigo Vespucci terminal

Civitavecchia, Italy (PortSEurope) May 24, 2018 – The Roma Cruise Terminal (RCT), designed to handle the largest cruise ships, has been inaugurated in...

Piraeus Container Terminal S.A. – April 2018 container terminal statistics

Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) May 17, 2018 – Piraeus Container Terminal S.A., part of China’s COSCO Shipping Ports Limited, has reported April 2018...

Costa Cruises to officially launch new flagship in Savona port in Nov 2019

Savona, Italy (PortSEurope) May 10, 2018 – Costa Cruises plans to officially launch its new flagship, Costa Smeralda, in Savona, on November 3, 2019. The...

Tarragona port completes emergency test aboard cruise ship

Tarragona, Spain (PortSEurope) May 3, 2018 – Tarragona port has successfully passed an emergency drill on a cruise ship. The stage was the “Costa...

La Spezia port set for LNG cruise ships visits

La Spezia, Italy (Ports Europe) April 19, 2018 – The La Spezia Panigaglia regasification plant is moving towards a phase of work with the arrival of the...

Costa Cruises and Marseille port sign sustainable development agreement

Marseille, France (Ports Europe) April 19, 2018 – Costa Cruises and the Grand Port of Marseilles (GPMM) have signed a partnership agreement to pursue...

Costa Cruises traffic in Tarragona port to rise by 79% in 2018

Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 18, 2018 – Costa Cruises traffic in Tarragona port, where the Costa Victoria vessel will call 23 times from April 6 to...

Costa Crociere starts managing cruise terminal in La Spezia port

La Spezia, Italy (Ports Europe) April 10, 2018 – In March 2018, Costa Crociere SpA was awarded a contract by Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar...

Costa Crociere starts short-term management of La Spezia port cruise terminal

La Spezia, Italy (Ports Europe) April 10, 2018 – Costa Crociere has started its management of the cruise terminal of La Spezia for a bridge period of 10...

Costa Crociere returns to Catania cruise port

Catania, Sicily, Italy (Ports Europe) April 2, 2018 – Costa Crociere SpA is to resume using Catania port after a break of a few years. The first landing...

Costa Cruises starts sales for inaugural cruise of Costa Venezia ship

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 2, 2018 – Costa Cruises has opened sales for the inaugural cruise of Costa Venezia, the new ship of the Italian company...

Costa Cruises orders third new generation ship

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) February 28, 2018 – Costa Cruises orders a third new generation ship for the German brand Aida Cruises. It will be built by Meyer...

Costa Cruises, Renfe renew cooperation deal

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 2, 2018 – Costa Cruises and Spanish state-run railway operator Renfe signed a renewal of their of cooperation...

Tarragona port receives recognition from Costa Cruises

Tarragona, Spain (PortSEurope) January 22, 2018 – Tarragona port and the members of Tarragona Cruise Port Costa Daurada last week received special...

Costa Cruises starts world tour from Venice

Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) January 5, 2018 – The Costa Cruises world tour with the Costa Luminosa vessel starts from Venice on January 5. A total of 106...

La Spezia to become home port for Royal Carribean

La Spezia, Italy (PortSEurope) December 5, 2017 – Italy’s Authority of the Eastern Ligurian Sea Port System is expected to sign a contract with Royal...

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