The captain of the shipwrecked Costa Concordia said in an interview broadcast Tuesday that he was distracted by a phone conversation shortly before the cruise liner crashed into a reef off an Italian ...

Costa Crociere Spa has offered passengers 11 000 euro (about R113 000) apiece to compensate them for their lost baggage and psychological trauma after its cruise ship ran aground and capsized off ...

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MUNICH, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Insurance industry payouts related to last year's sinking of cruise liner Costa Concordia have continued to rise and are likely to top $1.1 billion as salvaging of the wreck ...

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Carnival Corp., the world's largest cruise-line owner, was sued for at least $100 million over the wreck of the Costa Concordia near Italy's coast, which killed at least 17 people and left the vessel ...

After seeing images of the Costa Concordia, which ran aground near an Italian island last week, killing at least five people, it’s understandable that a sizeable portion of the public is deciding that ...

The Costa Concordia disaster started with an off-route “sail past” near Giglio Island and ended with a $2 billion catastrophe. More than 4,200 people were on board when the ship struck rocks, flooded, ...