From my friends over at Costa Cruises I have a couple of nice photos of the bow section of the new Costa Pacifica floating out at Fincantieri’s Palermo yard. The bow section was launched the old-fashioned way, down a slipway in Palermo on Monday, and will now go to Fincantieri’s Sestri Ponente yard in Genoa where it will be joined with other sections to create the latest Costa mega-ship.
The Costa Pacifica, a sister to the existing Costa Concordia and Costa Serena, will enter service in Spring 2009 along with the mid-sized Costa Luminosa (which also has a sister ship on order for Spring 2010).
Before we get to the photos, kudos to Costa for one of the best names I’ve heard for a new ship in a while; “pacific” of course means “peaceful” and so Pacifica goes very nicely with Concordia and Serena. One wonders what Luminosa’s sister ship will be called…
Now, here are the photos, courtesy of Costa Cruises:
