Costa Smeralda Milestone

Costa Smeralda refuled (bunkered) with LNG (Liquified Natural Gas) for the first time in Italy on October 25 (2020) at La Spieza. 

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Flying around Costa Smeralda

The 185,000-ton Costa Smeralda glided into Savona, Italy on Friday directly from Meyer Turku, ready for her first cruise on Saturday. It probably still has that new ship smell.

Other Things You'll Want to Know - October 28, 2019

CND subscribers also read about:

• An additional delay for Costa Smeralda's delivery, pushing the inaugural cruise back to December 21.
• Carnival Sunrise arrived at Ft Lauderdale ready to homeport there for its winter season
• Negligent homicide charges were filed against the grandfather of an 18-month-old girl who fell through an open window to her death on Freedom of the Seas when it was in San Juan in July.
• The Coast Guard ended their search Saturday evening for a 26-year-old man who went overboard from Carnival Dream last Thursday evening.  

Details appeared October 28 issue of Cruise News Daily.

Other Things You'll Want to Know - March 19, 2019

CND subscribers also read about:

• Carnival Cruise Line and Port Canaveral broke ground on the new Terminal 3 which will be used by Carnival's Mardi Gras.
• Meyer Werft delayed the departure of Spectrum of the Seas' conveyance down the Ems River until Wednesday morning (local time in Germany) due to low water levels in the river. 
• There was a minor fire aboard Costa Smeralda in the Meyer-Turku yard on Monday afternoon.

Details were in the March 19 edition of Cruise News Daily. 

Spectrum of the Seas beginning its departure from Meyer Werft. 

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A “Flood” of Excitement in Finland

Meyer-Turku celebrated the float out of Costa Smeralda today at their yard in Finland, marking the first time the ship has touched water, when Meyer and Costa officials opened the valves that let water into the dry dock.

Actually, it was more of a float up because it will take about 24 hours to fill the giant dry dock and tow the ship to an outfitting pier where its interior will be completed in time for delivery in October.

This is also an important milestone because Costa Smeralda is the first Costa ship, and the first to be sold globally, that will be powered both at sea and in port by clean-burning liquified natural gas (LNG).

The complete story appeared in the March 15 issue of Cruise News Daily.

Note: Additional photos still being added to this item. 

Water begins to flood the dry dock

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Topping Off

Meyer Turku "topped off" Costa's new flagship, Costa Smeralda, this week when it installed the funnel aboard the 180,000 ship. The ship is the first for the world market to be powered by Liquified National Gas (LNG) both at sea and in port. Costa Smeralda will enter service on October 20, 2019.

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Costa Smeralda Takes Shape

While we took some days off for the holiday, Meyer Turku was busy laying the keel for Costa Smeralda, which will be the first cruise ship marketed worldwide that is completely powered by clean-burning Liquified Natural Gas (LNG). The keel laying and coin ceremony took place on July 4 at Meyer's yard in Turku, Finland.

During the ceremony, commemorative coins were placed on the keel for luck in the traditional fashion. The godmother of the event was Elisabetta Moraci, a 28-year-old Second Deck Officer in the Costa fleet from Messina.

The complete story appeared n the July 6 issue of Cruise News Daily. 

Costa's Next Ship Will Be Celebrating Italy

Costa pulled back the curtain a bit on their next new ship, Costa Smeralda which will debut late next year.

In addition to being on the cutting edge environmentally by being the first cruise ship in the global market to be powered by LNG (liquified natural gas) both at sea and in port, Costa Smeralda will also be a tribute to Italy.

The complete story appeared in the May 4 edition of Cruise News Daily. 

Italy's Finest - and Cleanest

Meyer Turku cut the first steel today for Costa's first LNG-powered ship, the second of seven ordered by Carnival Corp from the Meyer group.

At the ceremony in Finland today, Costa president Neil Palomba revealed the name of the ship will be Costa Smeralda, or “Emerald Coast.”

The complete story appeared in the September 13 edition of Cruise News Daily. 

Costa Smeralda in Costa's new livery

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