Tag: Costa Concordia

Captain of Costa Concordia faces charges

Costa Concordia Crew Given Seafarer Award

Passengers Suing Carnival Cruises for Millions over Costa Concordia Shipwreck

Costa Concordia: Experts blame captain and firm

IMO Secretary-General Koji Sekimizu has called on governments and the shipping industry to take prompt and decisive action on a number of key issues.In a keynote address to the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) Conference in London today (12 September 2012), Mr. Sekimizu told shipowners that they had the power to encourage their flag States to ratify the International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships' Ballast Water and Sediments, 2004 (Ballast Water Management Convention) as soon as possible, as well as to implement its provisions with immediate effect. He pointed to the good number of ballast water treatment technologies now approved and available, together with the fixed deadlines for their application contained in the Convention, as convincing reasons why the industry should not wait any longer to implement its provisions.Warning of the negative consequences of further delay in bringing the convention into force, Mr. Sekimizu said; "The problems associated with ballast water are inherently connected to the expansion of world trade. This is an issue from which the shipping industry cannot escape."The recent ratification of the Ballast Water Management Convention by Denmark (on 11 September 2012) brought the number of States to have ratified the Convention to 36, ...

Costa Concordia Salvage Delayed

Costa Concordia captain describes banal accident

Napoli Bern Ripka Shkolnik, LLP -- This week, victims of the doomed Costa Concordia Cruise Ship that capsized off the Italian coast in January filed a new Complaint against Miami headquartered Carnival Corp., the builder of the Costa Concordia, for product liability, against Carnival's Miami-based architect for defective ship design and against Carnival for a pattern and practice of concealing and/or delaying notification of life threatening situations to passengers on board their cruise ships, amongst other causes of action. Another claim, alleging wrongful death on behalf of several other parties, is to be filed shortly.

The captain of the wrecked cruise liner Costa Concordia apologised on Tuesday for the accident in which as many as 32 people died and said he had been distracted when the vast ship struck the rock which holed it.

Costa Concordia: Shipwreck Tourism