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The ceremony took place in Montecarlo, during the "RINA Green Night" event sponsored by the RINA Group, which annually awards the best projects for environmental sustainability. For the first time the event included a category dedicated to cruise ships, where Costa Cruises won. On July 2, 2011, in Trieste, on the occasion of her naming ceremony, Costa’s new flagship Costa Favolosa, a cutting-edge ship in terms of environmental protection, received ‘Green Plus’ notation.

‘Green Plus’ is the highest notation assigned by RINA Group to ships that are environmentally compliant. ‘Green Plus’ is a voluntary notation certifying compliance with environmental protection standards that are far stricter than the provisions of the international MARPOL Convention. ‘Green Plus’ takes account of some 11 different pollution sources for vessels (including garbage, gray water, sewage, oily wastes from machinery spaces, CO2, ozone depleting substances, greenhouse gases, particulate matter, sulfur oxides, nitrogen and ballast water) and lays down specific restrictions for each one.

Costa Cruises is Europe’s number one cruise company (www.costacruise.com). For over 60 years its ships have plied the seas of the world, offering the best in Italian style, hospitality and cuisine and providing dream holidays with the utmost in terms of fun and relaxation. Its fleet has a total of 15 ships, all flying the Italian flag, each with her own distinctive characteristics and unique style; together each year, they offer the chance to visit some 250 separate destinations in the Mediterranean, Northern Europe, the Baltic Sea, the Caribbean, South America, the United Arab Emirates, the Far East, the Indian Ocean and the Round-the-World cruise. Two more new ships have been ordered from Fincantieri and will be delivered in Spring 2012 and October 2014.

Costa Cruises has been certified by RINA (Italian Shipping Register) with the BEST4, an integrated system of voluntary certification of corporate compliance with the highest standards governing social accountability (SA 8000, issued in 2001), environment (UNI EN ISO 14001, 2004), safety (OHSAS 18001, 2007) and quality (UNI EN ISO 9001, 2008) (www.costacruise.com/Best4).