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Costa Deliziosa Breaks Mooring Lines in Norway

The Costa Cruises vessel Costa Deliziosa, came unmoored while docked in Bergen, Norway over the weekend. From the photos, nothing too serious and no damage was reported from the vessel. The same can’t be said of the quarryside where a…

4 Costa Ships Meet In Savona [Photo]

On Easter Sunday, the Italian port of Savona saw 4 port calls from Costa Ships. Savona is sort of like a Red Hook, NY or Cape Liberty, NJ in that one line built it up and pretty much only Costa…

Costa Cruises Get New Ship

Costa Cruises announced that they have transferred the Grand Voyager of IberoCrceros, to the Costa fleet. The Italian line reported did this to bolster its presence in the Red Sea for the winter 2012 season. The Ship will have her…

Costa Classica Repaired in 96 Hours

The Costa Classica, that has involved in the collision in china, has been “repaired” in Changxing, China. It took just 96 hours. I say repaired in quotes because, my understanding, she was just made seaworthy. That means they made the…

Costa Classica Collision

Quite the story I came home to. The Costa Classica of Costa Cruises collided this morning with a cargo vessel in China. The incident occured in a deep water channel near the Yangtze River. The 1,300 pax ship was traveling…

Costa Christening in Dubai

Europe’s largest cruise line will station its newest vessel, Costa Deliziosa, in the United Arab Emirates, commonly referred to as the U.A.E. The ship will be home ported in the Emirate of Dubai as soon as she leaves the shipyard…

Costa Announces Ships Names

Finally some news not about Oasis or RCI! This one is about their competitors, Carnival Corp’s line Costa Cruises. The went public with two new vessel names. The 114,000 grt ships will be named: the Costa Favolosa and Costa Fascinosa.…