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Costa Crociere will employ a fifth ship for all the duration of the year in Asia
On April 10, 2017 "neoRomantica Costa" will arrive to Shanghai
April 15, 2016
. The company has announced that on April 10, 2017 neoRomantica the Costa unit will arrive to Shanghai after a cruise of positioning of 23 days in departure from Mauritius and successively will offer cruises with departures from Asia for all the year. Currently they are the three ships Coast that operate regularly in Asia, while a fourth, Costa Fortuna, will join beginning from next 22 April.
"The positioning in the 2017 of the fifth ship Coast in Asia, than joins to the two new tidy ships recently for Costa Asia - the managing director of the group has explained Coast, Michael Thamm - will allow us to continue to grow in meaningful way the market of the cruises in Asia, and in particular that Chinese, than it is previewed can become by the end of the decade according to greater market to the world".
After its arrival on April 10, 2017 in China neoRomantica the Costa ship, that it has an ability to 1.800 passengers, will enter in basin to Shanghai in order to carry out renewal work, so as to satisfy at best Chinese and Asian degliospiti the requirements and to strengthen the positioning "Italy at Sea" (Italy on the sea) that it characterizes the offer of Costa Asia. The first cruise dedicated to the local customers will leave on April 24, 2017 from Shanghai.
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