Costa Serena

Costa Serena

The Costa Serena in Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Ship data flag  Italy other ship names Ship of the Gods (German translation) Ship type Cruise ship class Concordia class Callsign ICAZ home port Genoa Owner Costa Crociere Shipyard Fincantieri , Sestri Ponente Launch August 4, 2006 Whereabouts in service

Ship dimensions and crew length 289.6 m ( Lüa ) width 35.5 m Draft Max. 8 m measurement 114,147 GT   crew 1,100

Machine system machine diesel-electric drive Top speed 21.5 kn (40 km / h) propeller 2 × 4-blade fixed propeller

Transport capacities Load capacity 8,900 dw Permitted number of passengers 3,780

Others Classifications Registro Italiano Navale Registration numbers IMO 9343132

Costa Serena in Istanbul , Turkey

The Costa Serena is a cruise ship on the Costa Crociere . It has been used mainly in the Mediterranean since 2007. Her name means siren , a female mythical creature from ancient Greek mythology, in whose style the entire ship is equipped.

As the second ship in the Concordia class , she was identical to the Costa Concordia . The other sister ships Costa Pacifica , Costa Favolosa and Costa Fascinosa and Carnival Splendor followed by 2012 . Together with the Costa Serena , these were the largest cruise ships built in Italy at the time of their commissioning and are a good three and a half meters too wide for a passage through the Panama Canal .

history

Order and construction

On January 4, 2005, before the completion of the Costa Concordia , Costa Crociere reached an agreement with the Fincantieri shipyard to have a second ship built in Sestri Ponente for EUR 475 million based on the same plans. The delivery should take place in spring 2007, so only nine months after the scheduled completion of the Costa Concordia . According to the company, around 450 million euros were ultimately invested in the construction. On May 15, 2007 the ship was handed over to Costa Crociere and then transferred to Marseille for the christening on May 19, 2007 . The celebration was accompanied in the French port city by an opera gala with fireworks and laser show around the most famous sights of the city. The godmother was the French actress Marion Cotillard . At the same time, a parallel event for the introduction of a digitized version of the ship including a cruise terminal took place in the virtual world Second Life .

commitment

Since 2007, the year it was in service, it has been sailing the Mediterranean, from 2015 it has been sailing on the Asian market, such as the Costa Venezia , Costa neoRomantica and since 2020 the Costa Firenze . Your base port is Shanghai , there are various three to five-day routes to destinations in Japan and South Korea .

See also

• List of cruise lines

Web links

Commons : Costa Serena  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Costa Serena , official website of the ship

Footnotes

1. ^ Costa Crociere doubles its order with Fincantieri. Agreement reached to build the Costa Concordia's new sister ship. In: Press Releases. Fincantieri, January 4, 2005, accessed March 4, 2014 . 
2. ^ Fincantieri delivers the twelfth flagship of Costa Crociere's italian fleet. Costa Serena, the God's ship. In: Press Releases. Fincantieri, April 15, 2007, accessed March 4, 2014 . 
3. ↑ Costa Serena: Christening of the largest cruise ship in Europe. In: pressemachrichten.at. Hochegger | Com, April 16, 2007, accessed on March 4, 2014 .