Costa in the headlines again

摘要

In the last issue of Ships Monthly, I wrote about the grounding of Costa Concordia and the effect the incident might have on the cruise industry as a whole. But however the industry reacts to the highly-publicised incident, Costa's parent company Carnival have hit difficult times. In early March the company, the world's largest cruise line, announced that its 2012 earnings were down 82 per cent, and posted a $139 million first-quarter loss compared with a net income of $152 million a year earlier.