Tag: Costa Deliziosa

• Tuesday, April 21st 2020 - 09:56 UTC

  Spain authorizes Italian 1,800 world tour cruise passengers to disembark in Barcelona

  

  Hundreds of passengers from an Italian cruise ship disembarked in Barcelona on Monday after five weeks without setting foot on land because of coronavirus restrictions. Since the ship left the northern Italian city of Venice on Jan 5 for a round-the-world tour, no coronavirus case has been found onboard.

• Tuesday, July 9th 2019 - 08:59 UTC

  Another serious cruise incident rattles Venice and questions large vessels' traffic in canals too close to the city

  

  A giant cruise ship very narrowly missed a yacht while being towed out of Venice late Sunday, just a month after a collision there renewed the controversy over the giant vessels. The 12-deck Costa Deliziosa, which is nearly 300 meters long and carries more than 3,800 passengers and crew, was being towed out in stormy conditions when the near-miss happened.