Fincantieri Delivers Costa Favolosa

Fincantieri delivered the 114,500-ton Costa Favolosa to Carnival Corp today at the shipbuilder’s Marghera yard this morning.

Costa Favolosa is the eighth of nine ships that Costa ordered from Fincantieri. The next ship to enter service will be Costa Fascinosa, also under construction at Marghera, to be delivered in the spring of 2012.

Costa Favolosa will be christened on July 2 at Trieste, and will be the largest ship to fly the Italian flag.



Congratulations were in order at the handover ceremony. Shown are Pier Luigi Foschi, Chairman and CEO Costa Crociere SpA, left, and Attilio Dapelo, Fincantieri Marghera plant director.

Costa Favolosa Godmother Named

Italian film star Margareth Madé will serve as Costa Favolosa's godmother naming the ship in Trieste on July 2, 2011.

The 114,500-ton Costa Favolosa will be the largest ship flying the Italian flag.



Photo credit: Sebastiano Pessina - Courtesy Jaeger-leCoultre

Costa Favolosa Takes Shape, Crystal Automates, and Work Continues on Norwegian Epic

CND subscribers also read about Costa's fifteenth ship taking shape, with the funnel being put in place on Costa Favolosa. Photos are on the CND website ... Crystal expanding online capabilities for passengers with bookings ... and Norwegian Epic left the yard with 200 yard workers and subcontractors aboard. Completion work will continue on the ship at least until it leaves Southampton and possibly during its transatlantic crossing, although most of the work is out of the sight of passengers.

Details of the above items appeared in the "Other Things You'll Want to Know" Column in the June 22, 2010, edition of Cruise News Daily.