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Costa Crociere records an sensitive increase of the reservations
On 25 May the company has exceeded quota million passengers reserved on the cruises
June 11, 2012
25th May Costa Crociere has exceeded quota million passengers reserved on the cruises offered from the company in 2012 and in the past months of April and May the society has recorded an increment of 28% of the reservations regarding the same months last year. Past saturday has announced the president and managing director of the company, Pier Luigi Foschi, in occasion of the public assembly "Thank you for shipping" organized from the Province of Genoa in the hall of the provincial council to which it has made followed in the Palace Coast, the headquarters of the crocieristica company to Genoa, a "Day Open" with two meet opened the public in which the manager of the company they have told the professions and the activities of the sea.
In its participation Gloomy it has in the first place thanked the local institutions, the citizenship and all which have been near Costa Crociere after the shipwreck of the Costa Concordia ship happened at the beginning of this year to the island of the Lily and have emphasized that from that date the company never has not been stopped, but assistance to hosts and crew has been dedicated to the management of the emergency, supplying and engaging themselves to the maximum for the safeguard of the island, engagement - it has evidenced - crowned from the success in the extraction operations fuel and "caretaking" and from the presentation of the plan of removal of the property left at death one.
Gloomy it has explained that Costa Crociere is returned to make to record given of sale encouraging, to testimony of the solidity of the company, of the quality of its produced one and of the confidence of its customers. The manager of the company has specified that the goal of million passengers reserved, exceeded 25th May, was exceeded for the first time, as first company in Europe, already in 2007 and then was equaled in the next years.
Moreover Gloomy Coast, only crocieristica company has rimarcato as the group to wave the Italian flag, contributes positively to the Italy system on multiple fronts: generating an economic impact of beyond 2,2 billion euros on the national economy (given a 2010) and occupational impact of great importance, estimated in 12.300 units of which 3,600 employees directly from the group and 8,700 generated along the chains of supply and for operators of tourist services for gross a advanced retributive total to 373 million euros, let alone important benefits for shipbuilding the national one having invested from 1990 today 5,8 billion euros in the Italian yards of Fincantieri, T. Mariotti and Saint George of the Port for a total of 14 constructed ships or in order, as well as the modernization of other ships already in service. To this figure they join other 19,2 billion euros coming from the other companies of the group Carnival Corporation & plc, of which Costa Crociere takes part.
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