05/06/2009 | In the Costa Crociere Event Worthy of a Guinness World Record, with the Ditec Automatic Doors, on the First Twin Ship Christening in the History of the Italian Navy

A unique event in the history of the Italian Navy shall be taking place in Genoa today and, for this reason, it may rightly enter the Guinness Book of Records. Indeed, today there will be the christening of two ships at the same time: the two new cruise liners of the Costa Group, which were built in the same shipyard, will be launched in unison during a single ceremony to be held in the port of Genoa.

Costa Crociere has organised for this occasion a really extraordinary and memorable event, and has announced it through all national and international media and especially through its website (www.mondocosta.it), where you will be able to follow, in real time, the christening of the two new stars in the glittering Costa world, Costa Luminosa and Costa Pacifica, both on the dedicated website and through the most famous social networks.
This event will be celebrating Italy and the Made-in-Italy style, and will be sponsored by the Council of Ministers, as well as by the Liguria Regional Authority and the Municipality of Genoa. The evening will be opened with an extraordinary exhibition of the Frecce Tricolori (the aerobatic demonstration team of the Italian Air Force), which will officially inaugurate the event; the celebration itself will be open to all the guest of the two ships, both passengers and invited guests, and the same will apply to the performance part: this will be inspired by the common theme “Italian Portrait of Music and Light” and will involve, among its protagonists, the gymnasts of the women’s national team and many other world-famous Italian guests, who will follow one another throughout the night.
Sponsors to each of the two liners will be two women who are well-known to the general public, two top-ranking artists: Valentina Vezzali will stand godmother for Costa Luminosa, the ship of light, this gem of technology and radiance, whereas Costa Pacifica, the ship of music, will enjoy the sponsorship of Noa, the famous international singer known for her dazzling career.

In this extraordinary context, Ditec will also play a major role: indeed, the automatic doors installed on the ships are the efficient work of the entrance automatism designer known through Europe.
The automatic, sliding, swing and telescopic doors are all installed in the busiest passenger transit areas, on the decks leading to the restaurants and cafeterias, in the transit areas leading to the sporting facilities and to the swilling pools, as well as in the area devoted to the formula-one simulator. We can definitely state that the guests who will be witnessing this extraordinary event will be also warmly welcomed by the efficient and elegant eservice offered by the Ditec automatisms.

This is not the first time that Ditec cooperates with shipyards, where Costa Crociere liners have been built, as it has already equipped with its automatism all the most recent ships launched by the Costa fleet: Costa Fortuna, Costa Concordia, Costa Serena, Pala Costa in Savona, and now the last two ships, “twinned” in this baptism of sea.

One of the two ships, Costa Luminosa, has also recently hosted, during the maiden voyage that took place two weeks before its christening, the latest Ditec convention, designed for its international representatives.

Costa Pacifica, an even more impressive liner, with its 114,000 tons and over 1,500 cabins, one third of which has a balcony overlooking the sea, is also an extremely original ship designed for music: indeed, each deck and each area of the ship has a soundtrack of its own and, for the first time, we have a ship furnished with a recording studio open to passengers!
Costa Pacifica has a 290 metre length, a 40 metre width and 62 metre height. It can carry 3,780 passengers and 1,100 crewmen.

This latest order certainly represents for Ditec a further acknowledgement as to the quality of its products and the professionalism displayed both in installation work and in technical assistance, in a field, such as the naval one, where weather stresses and conditions are not always optimal.

On the other hand, this renewed double reference offered to Ditec by Costa Crociere is also interesting from another point of view. The growing interest displayed for this kind of holiday, despite the general recession experienced at this time, has positively boosted the Italian shipbuilding sector specialising in large cruise liners and, consequently, all the allied industries that in the country equip and furnish these fabulous sea gems.

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