Costa Cruises has named Dario Rustico as CEO of its South America operation, taking over from Renê Hermann after a 24 year career. Rustico, from Italy, has been with the company since 2002 and has been based in Brazil for the last three years as sales and marketing manager. (cruiseindustrynews.com)
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Cruises are among the favorite vacations for Christmas and New Year. Costa Cruises has almost sold out on its 27 cruises, with over 80,000 berths available on 14 ships, allowing guests to celebrate in the most beautiful destinations in the Mediterranean, Caribbean, South America, Emirates, Indian Ocean, India, the Maldives and the Far East.
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A new communication campaign will be launched on December 26 to promote the attractions of Liguria. The project is promoted by Liguria Region and Costa Cruises and it’s focused on an advertisement which the cruise company has been fully involved in creating.
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Yesterday, at the Palacrociere terminal, the Western Ligurian Sea Port Authority and Costa Cruises signed the renewal of the contract to extend until 2044 the concession to the Italian company for the cruise areas and services of the port of Savona.
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The naming ceremony for Costa Venezia will be held in Trieste on March 1, 2019. The ship, currently under construction at the Fincantieri Monfalcone shipyard, is the first Costa Cruises vessel designed specifically to offer the best of Italy to the Chinese market.
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The contract was signed today, December 3, 2018, in Naples between Costa Cruises and the Commissioner for the Naples Universiade 2019, Gianluca Basile, to hire the ship Costa Victoria, which will be part of the athletes’ village for the sporting event planned to take place in the capital of Campania next summer.
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Costa Cruises presents the new international advertising campaign featuring a new and exceptional testimonial: Penélope Cruz.
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Those dishes prepared on board a ship that have not been served to guests now have a new life. Banc dels Aliments of Barcelona and Costa Cruises start a collaboration agreement whereby these dishes will be distributed, thanks to the Banc dels Aliments, between NGOs in the Barcelona area to help the people in need.
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Around midnight yesterday (Nov.20), the ship of the Italian company, which was sailing south of the Peloponnese towards the port of Katakolon, received a request for intervention from the Hellenic Coast Guard Joint Rescue Coordination Center of Piraeus to aid the fish carrier “Kilic 1”, in serious distress due to a fire onboard.
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CSSC Carnival Cruise Shipping has announced an agreement to purchase two existing ships from Carnival Corporation’s Costa Group. The first of these ships, the 85,861-ton, 2,210-passenger Costa Atlantica, is scheduled to be transferred to the new Chinese cruise line by the end of 2019. The new line is part of a joint venture between China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) and Carnival Corporation. (cruiseindustrynews.com)
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Shakira and her “Pies Descalzos Foundation”, the Ministry of Education with its Financial Fund of Educational Infrastructure, Cartagena’s Major’s office, the District Educational Secretary, Mario Santo Domingo Foundation, Costa Cruises and the program of Economic Cooperation and Development of the Switzerland Embassy in Colombia with the Architecture Department of the ETH Zürich, announce the beginning of the construction of a new Educational Institution in Cartagena city.
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A cruise ship collided with another vessel on Monday in the port of La Spezia, Italy, after strong winds and stormy weather conditions reportedly broke its mooring lines. (newsweek.com)
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A new collaboration between Costa Cruises and Associazione Panificatori Genovesi (Genoese Bakers Association) brings the taste of the authentic focaccia to its ships for the first time.
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“It is our first newbuild dedicated to the Chinese market,” said Mario Zanetti, president of Costa Group Asia, referring to the new Costa Venezia, which debuts in Shanghai next May. “We are creating a strategy for the new ship and it will be a game changer.” (cruiseindustrynews.com)
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