Customer
Costa Crociere S.p.A., Italy

Owner
Costa Crociere S.p.A., Italy

Shipyard
Cammell Laird, UK

Main Dimensions (as lengthened)
LOA: 265.40 m
LPP: 226.80 m
Breadth: 30.80 m
Draught, design: 7.30 m
Speed, service: 21.5 kn
Gross tonnage: 78,000 GT
Passengers: 2,500

Customer Benefits
- Improvement of speed-power performance.
- Optimum new machinery and propulsion configuration.

Other Benefits
- Experience in pod propulsion and model testing
- Experience in conversions

Commission
PROJECT STUDIES including:
Machinery propulsion system choice, structure, arrangement, weight, hull form with new bulbous bow and ducktail, pod arrangement, stability, speed-power performance.
Coordination of large series of model tests with four different pod manufacturers.