Dockwise has announced that they have been awarded the contract to remove the now upright Costa Concordia. The Dutch company will sail the Dockwise Vanguard to Giglio where the Concordia will be loaded onto the heavy lift vessel. Dockwise is…
When the ex-Grand Mistral is transferred to Costa’s fleet this winter, she will be renamed and rebranded as the Costa neoRiviera. This naming scheme is similar to her fleetmate Costa neoRomantica. She will be deployed to the Middle East with…
After 19 hours, the the Parbuckling is done. Originally planned as a 10 hour operation, the salvage team ran into some snags and it went slower than anticipated. We can now see what 20 months under water did to her…
For the first time since January 2012, the Costa Concordia is now upright. You can see in the above photo, from the live video stream, that the water line is now one deck below the bridge. That’s because she is…
This morning salvage workers began righting the partially capsized Costa Concordia. She is currently being hauled upright by hydraulic cables. Once upright, she’ll sit on a submerged structure before being properly re-floated. Reuters have the live video.
Here’s the first render of what she’ll look like. Shell be an identical sister to Carnvial’s Dream class. When she launches in October 2014, she’ll be the largest ship in Costa’s fleet. She recently had her forward-most block assembled and…
Insurance payouts are reportedly about to top usd$1.1 billion as workers continue to attempt to salvage the ship. The Reinsurer Munich Re said that the ship had a hull value of usd$500 million. The rest of the costs are from…
Friday Morning an Italian judge handed down the rulings for 4 crewmembers, and one land based manager, of the Costa Concordia. These sentencing’s are a result of a plea barging that the collective 5 took. Thus leaving Capt. Schettino as…
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…
Italian authorities have finally decided on the shipyard they will bring the soon-to-be-re-floated Costa Concordia. After having laid partially capsized since January 2012, the 114,137grt will be towed to the Tuscan port of Piombino. The choice could delay the refloating…
Heres some news that Costa did not want to wake up to. More bad luck for them as the Costa Pacifica had an allision with the pier in Marseille, France. It left a 8 meters long gash above the waterline.…
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The Costa Allegra, the Costa vessel that broke down in the Indian Ocean, has finally reached the scrapyard in Turkey. Her sister is currently sailing for South Korea’s Harmony Cruises. Costa had originally tried to sell her to Harmony, but…
While the actually recordings are still under possession of Italian police, parts of the transcript have begun to leak out. Among some of the alarming details was the Captains direct knowledge of the severity of the situation. Captain Schettino can…
Costa Crociere, Italo-American consortium Titan-Micoperi, and local Italian officials announced the details of the Costa Concordia removal plan. The work will be carried out for about 12 months and will refloat the partially capsized vessel. Titan Salvage, the American salvage…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
UPDATE: This morning brought the news that there are now 5 bodies found and not the original 3. They are said to all have been found lying on the seabed, underneath the submerged superstructure. Italian officials have just found three…
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.…
As part of Carnival’s latest press release regarding their financials, Micky Arison, CEO of Carnival Corporation, stated that the Costa Allegra will not be returning to service with Costa Cruises. She will either be sold or scrapped in the next…