Costa Crociere has taken in delivery the new Costa Fascinosa flagship



Saturday slid to Venice Costa Crociere has taken in delivery the new Costa Fascinosa flagship, constructed in the plant of Marghera of the Fincantieri group. The new unit, of 114.500 tons of tonnage, with the binoculars Costa Favolosa is the greatest cruise ship clapper Italian flag. Costa Fascinosa, that he has an ability to 3.800 passengers, is long 247,7 meters, wide 35,5 meters and has the maximum speed of 23,2 knots. Its construction has engaged altogether about 3.000 assigned directed and others 7,000 of the induced one. The majority of the enterprises that have participated to the construction, about 500, is Italian.

"The delivery of Costa Fascinosa - it has declared the president and managing director of Costa Crociere, Pier Luigi Foschi - is an important moment in the plan of resumption of our company. It is a confirmation of the great solidity of the company, date the capacity of the investment that is of beyond 500 million euros and that it arrives to single two months from the restyling from 90 million euros of neoRomantica Costa. After the recent incident, in spite of the meaningful economic crisis that reduces in important way the consumption, already we are returned to the levels of reservation of a year makes, in advance regarding our forecasts. Our market share in the main Countries where we operate has remained unchanged: we were, we are and we will remain the number in Europe. This thanks to the quality of our produced one, to the force of our guaranteed brand gives beyond 60 years of experience, and to the appreciation that our customers continue to demonstrate to us. We will continue to work in order to offer to more and more beautiful cruises and more serene vacations, with wonderful ships as Costa Fascinosa".

"Costa Fascinosa - he has emphasized the managing director of Fincantieri, Giuseppe Bono - is the concrete testimony of walks completed and of the reached results, although the difficult moments, from two great truths of our Country, than entirety they contribute to diffuse the image of the made in Italy in the world. We are pleased to have competition to the success of Coast, Italian company whose ships fly with pride Italian flag, a grown company until to become the number one of the section in Europe, while we hand in hand consolidated our leadership. The collaboration between ours two society, in fact, demonstrates as the Italian industry knows to make system, until to reach a quality that it does not have equal. Only so we will be able to assure a future to two strategic fields as shipbuilding and tourism".

The cruise of vernissage of Costa Fascinosa has left yesterday from Venice directed in Slovenia, Trieste and Croatia. 11 May, always from Venice, will leave the inaugural cruise of 10 days in Greece, Israel and Turkey. For all the remainder of the summery season, until the end of November, the ship will propose cruises of a week with departures from Venice and Bari towards Greece and Croatia. In the winter the 2012-13 flagship will be in South America, for cruises in Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay, while in summer 2013 oriental for cruises of a week in Greece and Turkey with departures from Venice and Bari will return in the Mediterranean.

After Costa Fascinosa, the plan of expansion of the fleet Coast previews the construction, always near the Fincantieri plant of Marghera, a new ship from 132.500 tons of tonnage and 4,928 passengers totals that will be the greatest Italian cruise ship, with delivery to October 2014.

In occasion of the ceremony of the delivery of its new flagship the crocieristica company has introduced seven new initiatives for safety. Draft in the first place of the strengthening, beyond requirement you set up of the regulation, the procedures of training of the passengers in case of emergency: every boarded passenger on any ship of the fleet will come in fact instructd before the ship lasci the port in which the passenger is himself boarded, so exceeding requirement dictated from the current national and international regulation that he demands to supply the instructions of emergency within 24 hours from the departure of the ship. The strengthening of the procedure is previewed also in case of lacked participation to the training on the emergency and safety on board: Costa Crociere makes use of an adulterated system in order to monitor the participation of the passengers to the training in case of emergency; the procedure is based on it uses of a paper with called bar code "Emergency Drill Card" that every hardly boarded passenger finds in own cabin. The paper is numbered and given back by the passenger to the staff of edge in the place where the training is carried out. The "Emergency Drill Card" come then scannerizzate from appropriate electronic readers who record the participants to the training. Costa Crociere has now strengthened this procedure introducing a dedicated software that he guarantees that the passengers turned out absent to the training king-are invited to participate to a new moment of training that will hold the following day.

The third measure consists in the new section "We for You" in the website of Costa Crociere for on board giving still more transparency on the safety procedures of the ships. In this area it is possible to verify how much safety continuously is monitored by the company. They come on hand in fact published of all: the voluntary regulations continuations during the planning and the construction of the ships; the plans of maintenance of the ships with cadences more tightening than established for law; the numerous safety inspections, obligatory and voluntary, that they are carried out every year (more than 100 in 2011); the relative information to the continuous formation of the crew on safety (more than 225.000 hours than formation carried out in 2011). The "video of instruction is also possible visionary on safety", always transmitted on board of the ships, containing the necessary instructions on what to make and how to behave in case of emergency. Moreover, shortly it will be possible to consult the profile of all the commanders and the other officials, followed suit of the information on the professional distance carried out, training and received certifications.

Moreover the company has launch the new system "High Tech Safety Monitoring System" (HT-SMS) for the monitoring in real time of the route of all the ships of the fleet that, involving personal assigned is of edge that of earth, affords to the company to characterize the position and the route of the entire fleet being verified safety of the plans broken, confronting the route planned from the commander of the ship before navigation (Voyage Passage Plan or VPP) with the route standard.

The formation of the officials on a new model of management of the bridge is previewed also who affords a greater team in the assumption of the decisions. In this new configuration the commander, also maintaining own prerogatives of participation as expected from the law, is not more the only emanator than orders, but she speeds up all its team to being protagonist of the maneuver, thinking aloud so that the others members of the team can participate to the decision. The formation activity is carried out near the innovative center of C-Smart formation to Almere in Holland, founded in 2009, where, through I use of simulators of maneuver the vanguard, is experienced a experience of intensive and likely navigation, that it recreates the truth of the conduction of the ship. Costa Crociere has specified that it is promuovendo through the Italian Confederation Shipping (Confitarma) a demand to the competent authorities, in order to return the new configuration recognized to normative level.

The sixth initiative consists in the formal sharing of the navigation plan of the ship. Costa Crociere will adopt in fact the new policy promoted from Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) that he demands greater argument in the assumption of the decisions during the briefings before the departure or maneuvers of navigation that demands detail vigilance. In particular, during the formation the deck officials are encouraged to express own comments and suggestions with respect to the plan of navigation of the ship, through deepening check list of arguments that all the team of the officials of covered must discuss with the commander in meeting formalized and dedicated, called "Voyage Overview". The arguments argument object include all the aspects key of navigation, as the weather one, the situation of the sea, the route, the situation of the traffic and the state of the ship. This meeting will join already to the current procedures in use in the fleet, as the compilation of the specific form of the "Voyage Passage Plan", signed from the commander, in which it is certifyd that all the documentation available is consulted to the aim to determine the several routes and the several speeds to follow draft for draft.

The seventh initiative previews the strengthening of the policies of access to the bridge on the base of the measures promoted from Cruise Lines International Association with the objective to diminish every possible form of distraction. It is demanded in fact that the access to the bridge during the moments of navigation that demand a greater vigilance, as for example the arrival of the ship in port or navigation with lowland visibility, is limited to people with operating functions tied to navigation or connected to they. The access of any other person, besides having to be authorized from the commander (as from norm), must be authorized also from the company.