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Today to Marghera the ceremony of the technical launch of the future flagship of Costa Crociere has been carried out
Fincantieri will deliver to the new cruise ship "Costa Diadema on October 30, 2014"
November 15, 2013
Today in the ship yard of Marghera di Fincantieri the ceremony of the technical launch of Costa Diadema, the future flagship of Costa Crociere has been carried out. The new cruise ship, of 132.500 tons of tonnage, will be delivered on October 30, 2014 once completed the work for the preparation of the internal ones. Costa Crociere has invested altogether about 550 million euros for the construction of its new flagship. The project engages altogether about 1.000 assigned directed of the yard and others 2,500 of the induced one.
The managing director of Costa Crociere, Michael Thamm, has remembered that Costa Diadema "is the tenth ship Coast constructed from Fincantieri from 2000 today, for an investment total almost five billions of euro. Draft - it has emphasized - of investments that create wealth and job in the Country. Not only when the ships are in yard, but also when they enter in service. The winter route of Costa Diadema in fact comprises three Italian ports, Savona, Civitavecchia and La Spezia. Moreover, thanks to its innovative services, Costa Diadema will open new horizons for Coast". During the winter season 2014-15 Costa Diadema will propose a route of a week that will afford to visit in an only cruise Rome and Florence, with ports of call in the ports of Savona, Marseilles, Barcelona, Palm of Majorca, Civitavecchia and La Spezia.
"They are by now many years - the managing director of Fincantieri has commented, Giuseppe Bono - than with Coast we form a binomial of success of "knowing to make" Italian. We hope therefore that the Country all is proud of these two great societies and do not make to lack own support for the their continuous increase. Also we are convinced that Costa Diadema, the greatest ship never constructed for Costa Crociere, will be of optimal auspice for the ulterior development of our societies and the entire field".
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