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Costa's neoCollection of ships and itineraries offer a slower pace of cruising. Stay longer in ports and immerse into the culture of a specific region or area. Slow cruises include onboard activities to compliment the theme of the cruise. Currently the Costa neo-Romantica and Costa neo-Riviera offer slow cruising and will be joined by the revitalized neo-Classica in December. By "Giacomo Costa fu Andrea" developed into a company producing olive oil and purchased the steamer Ravenna for the supply of raw materials.

The "Linea C", the scheduled service which connects Europe to South America, grows up with new ships. In the Sixties, Costa is the first operator in the world to offer Cruises in the Caribbean. A was acquired jointly by Carnival Corporation and Airtours with equal shares.

The advertising slogan became "Grande come il mare" As big as the sea. The growth programme of the fleet continued in December with the announcement of a third sister ship of the Costa Concordia and of the Costa Serena, named the Costa Pacifica, to be delivered by Spring Costa Allegra reaches port Adam Coulter. The stricken Costa Allegra — which has been stranded at sea for three days — has finally docked in the Seychelles.

The ship ran into difficulties on Monday when a fire in the engine room Costa Allegra ship in difficulties Adam Coulter. A second Costa Cruises ship has run into difficulty in as many months with more than 1, people on board and drifting without power in the Indian Ocean following a fire. The Costa Allegra is A massive 88 per cent of our readers said they will not change their travel plans as a result of the Costa Concordia tragedy.

Costa offers compensation to Concordia passengers Adam Coulter. I attended a press conference yesterday set up to answer some of the questions being asked in the wake of the Costa Concordia accident. Although the panel could not speak specifically about the accident nor As well as being the first ocean liner to cross the South Atlantic after World War II and the first to offer passenger cabins with air conditioning, it marked the start of a regular transatlantic service from Italy to South America.

Today the company is known as Costa Crociere Costa Cruises , and it dates much farther back than , to , when Giacoma Costa founded a small shipping company called "Giacomo Costa fu Andrea" trading in olive oil and fabrics. In Giacomo Costa fu Andrea changed its name to Linea C, and a year later began three decades of transatlantic service to and from Latin America.

In , the company expanded beyond transatlantic crossings into pleasure cruising with sailings in the Mediterranean in winter and the Caribbean the rest of the year. In the s, the line went on a buying spree and by Linea C had the world's largest fleet with 13 ships in total.

In , Linea C became Costa Cruises, with cruising as its core business. In , Costa was acquired jointly by Carnival Corporation and Airtours. Costa Cruises' modern history begins in , when Carnival purchased the Airtours shares and the brand became fully part of Carnival Corp. The same year, the 2,passenger Costa Atlantica made its debut in Venice as the largest ship ever built by a European company.

It was the first of Costa's ships to feature balconies. It also heralded the company's new "age. Indeed it was designed by Carnival's ubiquitous Joe Farcus, who has had a hand in every new-build between Atlantica and Diadema.

Costa has benefited from its Carnival Corporation ownership in the expanded fleet department, adding Costa Mediterranea, a sister ship to Costa Atlantica, in June , and then Costa Fortuna in November and Costa Magica in November The same year, Costa became the first cruise line in the world to enter the Chinese market. But also brought the first of a new prototype. The 2,passenger Costa Luminosa is actually smaller than its fleetmates and is meant to be an upmarket twist on the Costa experience.

Costa Deliziosa, a sister ship, joined Costa's fleet in January Two more ships -- which are fleetmates to the Costa Concordia design family -- also debuted; Costa Favolosa premiered in July , while Costa Fascinosa launched in