In the ship yard of Marghera di Fincantieri the construction of a ship for Costa Crociere is begun



In the ship yard of Marghera of the Fincantieri group the construction of a destined ship to the Costa Crociere company is begun. The new unit, with 135.500 tons of tonnage and 2,116 cabins, will be twin of Costa Venezia, whose realization is started at the end last year in the ship yard of Monfalcone(on 2 November 2017). As Costa Venezia, the new ship will be planned purposely for the Chinese market and will be taken in delivery in 2020.

Totally between 2019 and the 2021 four new ships will enter in service for Costa Crociere, with a total increase of the ability to the fleet pairs to 43%. To February 2019 Costa Venezia will arrive; to October 2019 the Costa Smeralda flagship, the first cruise ship for the world-wide market fed to GNL constructed from the Meyer yards to Turku (Finland); in 2020 the binoculars of Costa Venezia will arrive, while in the 2021 that of Costa Smeralda.

Costa Crociere has remembered that the program of innovation of own fleet comprises moreover from March 2019 re-enters in the Mediterranean di Costa Fortuna, currently engaged ship in Asia, that he will propose cruises of a week with departure from Genoa. To end 2019 neoRiviera Costa will pass instead to the fleet of AIDA Cruises, German brand of the group Coast. The ship, after the renewal work, will be renominated AIDAmira and will leave on December 4, 2019 for its first cruise from Palm of Majorca.

Moreover Costa Victoria by 30 March is returned to operate regularly in the Mediterranean, after to be is subordinate to work of renewal of the value of 11 million euros executed in the Ship yards of Marseilles. The main participations have regarded the public cabins, internal areas and those external ones. In the course of the next summery season the ship will offer a route of a week dedicated to the spiagge and amusement of the Balearic islands and Spain.

Based on this program of increase, the ships of the fleet of the crocieristica company will go up to 17 in 2021 regarding the 14 current ones. Altogether Coast can count currently on seven new ships in order, for an investment total of beyond six billions of euro. Besides the four new ships of Costa Crociere there are in fact three new ships to GNL for the fleet of AIDA Cruises, in arrival between the autumn of 2018 and 2023.