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Case Study Of Costa Crociere

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Costa Crociere S.p.A. is an Italian cruise line company. It was founded in 1854 in Genoa as a cargo shipping company. In the first decades of the XX century, the operations expanded at great speed until 1947, when passenger transportation services between Italy and South America were introduced. In the following years the company converted all its business full-time cruising and in the 90’s it became one of the biggest cruise operators in Europe.
Until 1997, Costa Crociere was a family-owned business, but that year the majority of its stakes were sold to Carnival Corporation & Plc, an American conglomerate that owns some of the most important cruise line companies in the world. Costa Crociere, now also known as Costa Cruises Group remained in control of the Italian operations and became also responsible for AIDA Cruises in Germany …show more content…

The numbers of people visiting the island increased exponentially after January 2012, and people were mainly drawn by the possibility to see the ship relict and take pictures of the disaster. However, Isola del Giglio is a popular scuba diving destination and residents were afraid of the possible environmental damage caused by fuel leakage and floating ship remains. The chief of the Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA) agreed with the inhabitants and forecasted a lost, in the worst case scenario, of dozens of millions of euros.
At popular level, De Falco’s order phrase to Schettino “Vada a bordo, cazzo!” (“Go back on board, for f**k’s sake!”) became in some way a slogan to be used when someone did not want to face the consequences of their actions. Schettino even became an Internet meme in various platforms, such as Facebook pages and Twitter.
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