In January 2012, 32 people died when the Costa Concordia capsized off Italy's coast.
The Costa Concordia, which could carry 3, 800 passengers, represented about 1.5% of Carnival's capacity.
Reports from the Costa Concordia, however, raise questions about how well the evacuation was executed.
So congratulations to the majority of the Costa Concordia crew who saved so countless lives that night!
He also also denied claims by prosecutors that he left the Costa Concordia before evacuation was complete.
Meanwhile, the Costa Concordia, now a half-submerged carcass, still sits in the harbor where it ran aground.
The Costa Concordia still lies next to the rocky outcrops off Giglio Island in Italy's Tuscan coast.
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However, she said work was planned to prepare for an incident on the scale of the Costa Concordia.
Carnival is the parent company of Costa Crociere SpA, the Genoa, Italy, company that operated the Costa Concordia.
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Everyone said it was identical to the Costa Concordia and in Italy they call them gemelas, or twins.
The Costa Concordia cannot stay in its current position, as it represents a danger for the environment, said Gabrielli.
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Italian authorities are heading the investigation into the Costa Concordia accident, because the ship was flying under the Italian flag.
Six people died and 29 are said to be missing after the Costa Concordia's hull was torn open on Friday.
So far, its Maritime Safety Committee, which met five months after the sinking of the Costa Concordia, has issued only voluntary guidance.
Costa Crociere SpA, operator of the Costa Concordia, the ship that ran aground, makes up about 16% of Carnival's fleet, UBS estimated.
The company now expects net-revenue yields will be flat to down slightly for the year, excluding the impact of the Costa Concordia incident.
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.
Clarification 18 January 2012: An earlier version of this story said that no rocks were shown on the UKHO's charts where the Costa Concordia sank.
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.
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.
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But it is impossible to think that the sinking of the Costa Concordia will not lead to some changes to the culture of safety on board.
For instance, passengers on the Costa Concordia had not completed a lifeboat safety drill, because ships have 24 hours after setting sail to hold the drill.
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Upon making its approach to Giglio's tiny port, the Costa Concordia hit a rock that sent water gushing into its hull as the ship silently glided past the port.
During Carnival's annual general meeting earlier this month, Mr. Arison thanked Mr. Foschi and his management team for their "amazing efforts" related to the Costa Concordia incident and its aftermath.
And he also denied claims by prosecutors that he left the Costa Concordia before evacuation was complete, insisting that he and his crew were the last to leave the ship.
After the Costa Concordia accident, officials learned about 600 of more than 3, 000 the ship's passengers had not participated in the muster drill because they got on the ship within hours of the accident.
Thirty-two people died in the shipwreck in January, which an official report blamed the captain of the Costa Concordia for causing, as well as assigning some responsibility to Costa, which is owned by Carnival.
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