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Reported fleet size
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No published figure available
Container capacity
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Not a ranked container line
Gross tonnage on record
1,510,166
Summed over 18 ships reporting tonnage
In brief
Costa Crociere S.p.A. (Italian pronunciation: [ˈkɔsta kroˈtʃɛːre]), operating as Costa Cruises, is an Italian cruise line founded in 1948 and organized as a wholly owned subsidiary of Carnival Corporation & plc since 2000. Based in Genoa, Italy, the cruise line primarily caters to the European cruise market, but the company's 10 ships, which all sail under the Italian flag, provide itineraries sailing to countries globally.
Origin
Costa Cruises was founded in 1854 in Genoa by one named founder on record. Portraits are shown only where a freely licensed photograph exists and its photographer is known.
Founder
Giacomo Costa
1836–1916
Italian shipowner and entrepreneur (1836–1916)
Corporate profile
Corporate structure
Parent company
Carnival Corporation
Services and products
Fleet on record
Composition of the 21 vessels this registry attributes to Costa Cruises. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.
By shipbuilder
Delivery history
Ships delivered in each of the last 10 years, counted from the recorded build year of vessels attributed to this company, with the running total of its fleet on record. 1 deliveries fall inside this window.
| Year | Deliveries | Ships delivered | Gross tonnage added | Fleet on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 0 | — | 20 | |
| 2018 | 0 | — | 20 | |
| 2019 | 0 | — | 20 | |
| 2020 | 0 | — | 20 | |
| 2021 | 1 | 186,364 | 21 | |
| 2022 | 0 | — | 21 | |
| 2023 | 0 | — | 21 | |
| 2024 | 0 | — | 21 | |
| 2025 | 0 | — | 21 | |
| 2026 | 0 | — | 21 |
Vessel records
| Ship | IMO | Type | Flag | Built | Gross tonnage | Deadweight | Length | Builder |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5016523 | Passenger vessel | — | 1942 | — | — | 142.3 m | — |
Ships in registry counts individual vessel records attributed to the company here. Reported fleet is the company’s published total. They measure different things and are shown separately on purpose.
In context
Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
With 21 vessels attributed to it here, Costa Cruises is the 39th largest of the 965 operators in this directory that hold at least one ship on record, against a median of 2 across that group. That is a count of individually identified hulls, not the company’s published fleet size — the two are different measurements and both are shown above where available.
Italy is the country of registration for 40 commercial operators in this directory, among which Costa Cruises ranks 4th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 256 vessels here. 1 of them carry a published container-capacity ranking. See every operator registered in Italy.
Founded in 1854, Costa Cruises is 172 years old. This directory holds 26 operators founded within five years either side of that date, whose median fleet on record is 1 ships. The median founding year across all commercial operators here is 1966, and the oldest on record dates to 1514.
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Provenance
Company and vessel recordsWikidata item Q1136349, released under CC0. Counted figures on this page are counts over those records.
Written summaryQuoted from Costa Cruises on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Published fleet figuresNo published fleet figure is available for this company.