Costa Cruises have made plans for three major
new initiatives for Trieste.
In
November this
year, Trieste will be the first port to welcome the new €550 million flagship, Costa Diadema.
Currently under construction at Fincantieri’s
Marghera shipyard, Costa Diadema’s preview cruise will depart from Trieste on 1
November with an overnight stop until 1 pm the following day. During the stay a
special event organised by Costa Cruises and the Municipality of Trieste will be
staged to present the ship to the city.
Starting
April 2015,
Costa will begin a new programme
of cruises from
Trieste on Costa Mediterranea
(85,700
gross tonnage and 2,680 total
guests),
which will spend
two days and an overnight stopover in the city:
a great opportunity for promotion of local tourism. The ship will visit Trieste some 35 times on weekly port
calls from 10 April to 5 December 2015, arriving in Trieste at 9am every Friday
and departing at 7pm on Saturdays. The route also includes
Split,
Kotor, Kefalonia, Corfu and Dubrovnik.
Thanks
to a strategic partnership with Italian state railway operator Trenitalia, in
2015 Costa’s guests will benefit from high-speed
train transport links to Trieste. Using the new
“Rail&Cruise” formula, cruise passengers will be able to purchase rail
tickets on the Frecciabianca high-speed train service between Turin and
Trieste stopping in Novara, Vercelli, Brescia, Verona, Vicenza, Padua and
Venice.
Costa’s guests will travel in reserved carriages and will also be
offered a series of additional services included in the fare including
transportation of their baggage from their doorstep to their cabin, transfers
from the station to the port and vice versa, assistance from Costa ground staff
at their station of departure and on the train, and baggage insurance. www.costacruises.co.uk
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