Tagged: Costa Cruises

Costa Cruises has confirmed that Italian health officials diagnosed the passenger onboard Costa Smeralda with the common flu. Earlier on Thursday, the ship had essentially been quarantined in the port of Civitavecchia due coronavirus concerns. (cruiseindustrynews.com)

Nearly 70 British tourists were among 7,000 passengers and crew stuck on a cruise ship in an Italian port on Thursday evening, as doctors carried out tests on a Chinese couple whom it was feared may have contracted the coronavirus. (telegraph.co.uk)

Cruise ship COSTA VENEZIA returned to Shenzhen port, southeastern China near Hong Kong, in the morning Jan 26, after a 6-day cruise to Vietnam. On arrival, cruise ship was boarded by medical team, all 4973 passengers and 12 49 crew were checked by medics for symptoms of fever and pneumonia, 4 were found to have high temperature. (maritimebulletin.net)

The Costa Group, the leading European cruise company, is strengthening its external relations and sustainability with the arrival of Rossella Carrara, who joined the company on January 14, 2020 as Costa Group Vice President External Relations and Sustainability. (more…)

Costa Atlantica has become the first vessel of CSSC Carnival Cruise Shipping, a joint venture between China State Shipibuilding Corporation (CSSC) and Carnival corporation & plc. In November last year, Carnival said, the 85,861-ton, 2,210 passenger capacity Costa Atlantica, would be transferred to the new Chinese cruise line by the end of 2019. (cruisebusiness.com)

Reaching the city where you will embark on your Costa cruise ship will now become easier, as Costa Cruises and FlixBus have announced a new partnership today. (more…)

Italian cruise liner Costa Cruises will launch new trips linking Sanya, a coastal city in south China’s Hainan Province to tourist destinations in Vietnam and the Philippines in January 2020, the company said Monday. The Costa cruise liner will depart from Sanya on Jan. 4 and carry passengers from Sanya to cities including Da Nang, Ha Long Bay, Nha Trang in Vietnam and Manila and Subic in the Philippines. (xinhuanet.com)