The Costa Fascinosa cruise ship will be christened on 6 May to Savona



Costa Fascinosa, the sixteenth ship of the fleet of Costa Crociere currently in preparation in the Fincantieri plant of Marghera, will be christened next 6 May to Savona. The unit, of 114.500 tons of tonnage and the ability to 3.800 passengers, will be the greatest cruise ship clapper Italian flag.

Costa Fascinosa will be the first cruise ship to be christened in from Liguria city and the event will have the support of the Harbour Authority, of the Chamber of Commerce, the Municipality and the Province of Savona let alone of the Liguria Region. Baptism will happen in the course of the first cruise of vernissage of the ship in departure on 2 May from Venice. After the event, for all the summer the ship will offer cruises of a week, in departure from Venice and Bari, to the discovery of the Greek islands and Croatia.

Costa Crociere has invested about 510 million euros for the construction of Costa Fascinosa. After this ship, the plan of expansion of the fleet of the company previews the construction, always in the plant of Marghera, a new ship from 132.500 tons of tonnage and 4,928 passengers totals that will be completed in October 2014.

From 2000 Costa Crociere it has ordered in the Italian yards of Fincantieri a total of 10 new ships, for a total investment of beyond five billions of euro. In order to support the consequent increment of ships and passengers in arrival to Savona, the company has invested also in the widening of the Palacrociere, the terminal of from Liguria port that the Italian company manages directly from 2003: to January 2012 the work for the construction will leave in fact of according to terminal, for a value of about nine million euro, that they will be completed to March 2013.

In the 2011 crocieristi enlivened to the Palacrociere from the ships Coast they have reached the figure record of about a million, with an increase of 35% regarding last year. In 2012 very 14 ships of the fleet of the company, on a total of 16 at least once, will call the Palacrociere: in total they are previewed about 230 ports of call for beyond million crocieristi enlivened.

Costa Crociere has remembered that, second a study of the MIP, the School Business of the Polytechnic of Milan, the value of the generated induced one in 2010 from the crocieristica company in the port of Savona and Liguria has been respective of 5,5 million euros and almost 230 million euros.