Entries Tagged ‘costa cruises’

Costa Concordia Filmed Like Never Before. But is it Legal?

Team Black Sheep are a group of people that specialize in Quadrocopter photography. They recently released the below video to showcase the vessel like never before. Make sure to put it in HD and fullscreen it. Its not everyday you get to see a partially capsized cruise ship. The Youtube page states the following: This [...]

Want to Follow The Costa Concordia Removal Project

www.theparbucklingproject.com You can use this website to follow the project and learn more.

Costa Concordia Word Cloud

via Cruise Market Watch

Former Costa CEO Un-retires and is Appointed to Carnival sub-brand

In April, we reported that current Costa CEO Pier Luigi Foschi will retire from his role at Costa Cruises. It seemed to be a reactionary move, corresponding to the Concordia disaster. However, it has been announced that Mr. Foschi will instead be appointed to oversee Carnival plc.’s “growth strategies within the rapidly expanding Asian region.” [...]

RUMOR: Costa Orders Second Ship

And they said the Costa brand was dead…. When Carnival ordered 3 ships for AIDA/Costa back in August, there was a provision for a second ship for Costa. Rumor has it that Carnival my be close to picking up that option. Here’s what I wrote back in August: [The deal] calls for one ship for [...]

Costa Fascinosa Launched

In what was dubbed a ‘low-key’ event by spectators, Costa Cruises launched their latest ship. The 114,500grt ship debuted in Venice. Traditionally, during the ceremony, line officials will take the podium and at this event, they didn’t disappoint! Costa’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Pier Luigi Foschi: Booking volumes are back to the same levels recorded this [...]

Costa CEO To Retire

Blame it on the terrible economy of Europe right now. Blame it on the Costa Concordia fallout. Either way Pier Luigi Foschi, Costa Cruises CEO has announced that he will retire effective July 1, 2012. The 65 year old Italian, will still remain with Carnival plc. as chairman and managing director of Costa. He also [...]

Concordia Salvage Plan Announced

Costa Cruises and Italian officials have announced the plan that was chosen for the salvage of the Concordia. Still laying partially capsized off of Giglio, the vessel recently had all her bunkers (fuel) pumped out as the the first phase of the recovery was complete. The plan that was chosen for the next operation was [...]

Costa Concordia’s bunkers, all pumped out

Costa and local Italian officials announced today that they have finally pumped all bunkers (fuel) out of the ship. The operation began on February 12th and workers have been removing the fuel oil  around the clock ever since. Total cost of the operation is said to be in the couple of million euros. Costa President [...]

Costa Concordia’s Bell Stolen from Wreck

News broke today that apparently the ships bell has been stolen. The all brass fixture with “COSTA CONCORDIA” written on it, was taken somewhere around 2 weeks ago. Police say they don’t have any suspects, but do have some leads. The wreck is being guarded by police and coastguard 24/7. Imagine how much this would [...]

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