Costa Cruises News

Prosecutors rejected a plea bargain offer by the captain of the cruise ship Costa Concordia, which capsized off Italy's west coast last year with the loss of 32 lives, lawyers said on Tuesday.

The captain of the Costa Concordia Francesco Schettino leaves at the end of the preliminary hearings in Grosseto October 15, 2012.

PROSECUTORS rejected a plea bargain offer by the captain of the cruise ship Costa Concordia , which capsized off Italy's west coast last year with the loss of 32 lives, lawyers said on Tuesday.

WAM DUBAI: As the 2012-2013 cruise season comes to a close with the Sea Princess from Princess Cruises due on 10th June 2013, plans are already in place to increase the sector's contribution to the growth of tourism in Dubai, in-line with the vision to attract 20 million visitors per year to the Emirate by 2020.

COSTA Cruises will launch the first round-the-world tour from China next March and the 83-day tour will call ports at 16 countries in five continents.

Miami-based Carnival Corp. recently opened a new outpost in Singapore, part of a push to expand the world's largest cruise ship company in Asia.

Nobody can deny that it has been a bad period for the cruise market with headlines and PR disasters that would have left many businesses fighting for their survival.