TradeWinds
Shipping Index
Article image

Four more bodies found

Divers begin operation to recover more victims of Costa Concordia tragedy off Italy.
15:15 GMT, 22 Feb 2012
Article image

Chaos on doomed cruiseship's bridge

New footage reveals how officers' casual reaction to imminent Costa Concordia tragedy soon turned to panic.

08:41 GMT, 13 Feb 2012
Article image

Passenger safety on IMO chief's agenda

Koji Sekimizu plans new international initiative after Costa Concordia tragedy.

18:26 GMT, 16 Feb 2012
Article image

Costa bunker removal starts

Work to remove the fuel oil from the wreck of the Italian cruise liner has finally begun after weeks of delays.

00:39 GMT, 13 Feb 2012
Article image

French start Costa Concordia probe

Paris prosecutor's office to investigate claims filed in France over the cruiseship disaster.

11:34 GMT, 03 Feb 2012
Article image

Purser saved by a frying pan

Last crewman taken alive from Costa Concordia whacked windows with kitchen equipment to alert rescuers.

15:40 GMT, 03 Feb 2012
Article image

Schettino survives jail bid

Italian court rejects prosecution attempt to move Costa Concordia captain to prison while charges evaluated.

16:06 GMT, 07 Feb 2012
Article image

Germans sue Francesco Schettino

Nineteen passengers file claim against captain of Costa Concordia, claiming negligence.

16:01 GMT, 02 Feb 2012
Article image

Costa salvage work delayed

Bad weather and ship movement halt search for bodies and operation to remove ship’s bunker fuel.

00:53 GMT, 30 Jan 2012
Article image

Costa salvage deal by March

Cruise line invites ten salvage companies to bid for Costa Concordia wreck removal contract.

03:41 GMT, 03 Feb 2012
Article image

Costa Cruises offers payout

Carnival Corp-owned cruiseship operator makes $15,000 plus costs compensation offer to passengers of Concordia tragedy.

11:23 GMT, 27 Jan 2012
Article image

Carnival plans safety audit

Cruise giant orders comprehensive review of safety and emergency response in wake of Costa disaster.

01:25 GMT, 20 Jan 2012
Article image

Costa Concordia costs escalate

Carnival fires profit warning as surveyors struggle to determine viability and cost of repairing doomed $490m cruiseship.

18:37 GMT, 30 Jan 2012
Article image

Cruiseship size doesn't matter

Cruise industry experts defend safety record of giant vessels in wake of Costa Concordia tragegy.

14:10 GMT, 19 Jan 2012
Article image

Costa Cruises denies salute claim

Italian owner rejects captain’s testimony that company ordered Concordia’s near approach to island of Giglio.

09:46 GMT, 23 Jan 2012
Article image

Carnival sued by crew member

Gary Lobaton goes for class action against Costa Concordia owner, claiming evacuation came too late.

08:12 GMT, 27 Jan 2012
Article image

Bunkers removal set to start

Smit have begun preparations to pump out fuel from the wreck of the Costa Concordia.

04:38 GMT, 25 Jan 2012
Article image

Costa fuel removal delayed

Smit awaiting go-ahead from Italian authorities, but vessel stability is delaying any progress.

01:30 GMT, 23 Jan 2012
Article image

Costa comments cost Scerni

The head of Italian classification society resigns over allegations about previous Costa sailings.

23:42 GMT, 17 Jan 2012

Arrests in Costa deaths scam

Article image

Cruiseship tragedy seen from space

The tragic wreck of the capsized cruise ship Costa Concordia is clearly visible from an orbiting satellite.

17:22 GMT, 18 Jan 2012
Article image

Costa Concordia captain "admits error"

Francesco Schettino tells Italian court he ordered cruiseship to turn too late to avoid rocks.

15:27 GMT, 18 Jan 2012
Article image

Concordia evacuation "too late"

Costa chairman Pier Luigi Foschi says no lives would have been lost had passengers been taken off stricken cruiseship earlier, calling delay "unjustifiable".

09:29 GMT, 20 Jan 2012
Article image

"Do you want to go home, Schettino?"

Italian prosecutors release tape of port official ordering captain back on board stricken Costa Concordia.

13:59 GMT, 17 Jan 2012
Article image

Number missing in cruise tragedy falls

The number of people dead or missing from the capsize of the Costa Concordia falls to a near miraculous 20.

20:02 GMT, 15 Jan 2012
Article image

Nautilus slams cruise safety

Costa Concordia sinking incident should be a “wake-up call” to regulators, says seafarers union.

01:18 GMT, 16 Jan 2012
Article image

Cruise shares slump heavily

Carnival and Royal Caribbean stock prices take a hammering in wake of Costa Concordia disaster.

00:35 GMT, 18 Jan 2012
Article image

Carnival Corp counts crash cost

London-quoted cruise ship owner says Costa Concordia tragedy will leave a $95m black hole in its finances.

08:45 GMT, 16 Jan 2012
Article image

Costa stands by its man

Owner offers to help Costa Concordia captain in legal fight despite accusations of “significant human error”.

16:21 GMT, 16 Jan 2012
Article image

Micky takes flack for staying in Florida

Carnival boss faces a raft of questioning headlines in wake of Costa Concordia tragedy.

08:48 GMT, 17 Jan 2012
Article image

Forty feared dead in cruise tragedy

Half the people missing from the capsized cruiseship Costa Concordia are now accounted for but incident still set to rank as a major loss of life tragedy.

12:48 GMT, 15 Jan 2012
Article image

Costa "blames" the captain

Human error the most likely cause of Costa Concordia tragedy, the ships owner says in first comment on disaster.

00:15 GMT, 16 Jan 2012
Article image

SMIT set to remove bunkers

Dutch salvage company set to begin removing bunkers once search operations have been concluded.

01:06 GMT, 16 Jan 2012
Article image

Costa tragedy fears grow as hours pass

Death toll may top 70 as divers fail to find passengers missing from capsized cruiseship.

19:10 GMT, 14 Jan 2012
Article image

Costa grounding claims six

Over 4,000 passengers and crew evacuated after cruise ship runs aground off eastern Italian coast.

04:47 GMT, 14 Jan 2012
ShipX Auction