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Costa Crociere institutes to Amburgo an unit in order to manage the operativity of the fleet
Neil Palomba will be the new general manager of the company
January 29, 2015
Costa Crociere has made official the creation of an whom unified Marine Operations Center to Amburgo under the name of Carnival Maritime. The crocieristica company of the American group Carnival Corporation has explained that it will be an unit to the vanguard and highly digitized in order to manage the operativity of its fleet, than at the moment is composed from 25 enclosed ships those of the AIDA Cruises brand, with the support of Lufthansa Technik. Carnival Maritime will be guided by Jens Lassen, at the moment senior vice president Marine Operations di AIDA Cruises, that it will directly bring back to the managing director of the group Coast, Michael Thamm.
To Amburgo therefore up to now carried out activities in the headquarters of the crocieristica company to Genoa will be transferred. "Amburgo - Thamm has explained - offers an access to us privileged to the technology and to the competences of the marine field. We are sure that the grip collaboration with Lufthansa Technik will afford us to acquire the know-how-how of the airlines for the continuous improvement of the quality of the operations of our fleet".
Costa Crociere has moreover communicated changes in the directive group of the company. Beginning from Sunday the next Neil Palomba, current senior vice president Hotel Operations & Product Development, will become general manager of Costa Crociere, to Genoa. He will have the responsibility to guide the brand Coast, comprised the planning and product development, the sales and the customer dear of the first company in Europe. Always by Buhdy Sunday Until Bok, current senior vice president Pacific Asia and China, will be named general manager of Costa Asia, to Shanghai. Both the new general managers, so as Michael Ungerer, at the head of AIDA Cruises, will directly bring back the managing director of Costa Crociere.
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