Tag: Costa Concordia

Italy Marks 10 Years Since Deadly Costa Concordia Shipwreck

January 14, 2022
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GIGLIO, Italy—Italy on Thursday marked the 10th anniversary of the Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster with a daylong commemoration ending with a candlelight vigil marking the moment the ship slammed into a reef and then capsized off the Tuscan island of Giglio. Church bells rang out as a commemorative Mass got underway in the Giglio…

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Italy Court Awards Costa Concordia Passenger Over $100,000

December 30, 2021
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ROME—An Italian court has ordered Costa Crociere cruise line to pay 92,700 euros ($105,000) to a passenger who was aboard the Costa Concordia when it crashed and capsized off Tuscany in 2012, in one of the few civil lawsuits to have reached a verdict against the company. The Genoa court recognized that passenger Ernesto Carusotti…

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