Hello

The Costa Serena, currently building in Sestri Ponente shipyards, in Genova, and the first sister ship of the Costa Concordia will be named in Marseille on 19th May. It shows the interests of the company to the city of Marseille. On the other I remin that Costa represented 25 % of the cruise traffic in Marseille. The only Costa ship which has sailed from Marseille last year is the Costa Fortuna, and she will be back from April to November 2007. The First Costa's ships which started cruises from Marseille is the Costa Romantica in 1996, with 25 calls and 40 passangers. The Costa Serena is the 12th ship of the Costa's fleet. She is a 112 000 GT ship, 290 m long, and she is able to carry 3780 passangers. The Samsara Spa will be the largest one aboard a cruise ship. The Costa Serrena will start her cruise program from Venice on 26th May 2007,with the Inaugural cruise whic will last 8 days and from June to November, the ship will perform a series of 7 days weekly cruises , calling at Bari, Katakolon(Greece), Izmir(Turkey), Istanbul (Turkey), and Dubrovnik (Croatia). From November she will sail 10 or 11 days cruises in Canary islands.

Cheers
Lucas