The sinking of the Costa Concordia cruise ship this month has once again shone a spotlight on the overall safety of transport.
The wreck of the Costa Concordia cruise ship in Italy will be removed by September at the latest, officials overseeing the work have said.
Last year, which began with the Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster off Italy which claimed 32 lives, saw only a small increase in the number of UK passengers taking a cruise holiday - up by just 1, 000.
The BBC's Alan Johnston in Rome says that whatever the cause of the crash, it has revived memories of the accident involving the Costa Concordia cruise ship off the Italian island of Giglio in January 2012, which left 32 people dead.
When the cruise ship Costa Concordia struck a reef off the island of Giglio on January 13, international attention inevitably focused on the actions of the master.
We have all seen complexity damage various kinds of enterprises in recent times: the Costa Concordia proved that the systems for evacuating over 4000 cruise ship passengers failed due to the complexity of the task.
Just 6 weeks after the Costa Concordia ran aground off Italy, another one of their cruise ships, the Costa Allegra has caught fire and is now adrift two hundred miles southwest of the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean.
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The new policy is the first to come out of an internal cruise industry review announced last month in response to the Costa Concordia disaster.
Yet the episode has focused attention on cruise-ship safety, little more than a year after the Costa Concordia shipwreck in Italy that killed 32 people.
When MS Costa Concordia struck the rocks off Isola del Giglio Jan. 13, more than just a single cruise liner ran aground.
Industry observers couldn't recall an incident involving a cruise ship in recent history with images as searing as the keeled-over Costa Concordia.
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