Costa Cruises has partnered with Italian glass experts Venini to commission three vases that will be displayed on Costa Fascinosa’s vernissage cruise on 6 May 2012. Designed by prominent Italian artists Flavio Lucchini, Emanuela Venturini and Casagrande & Recalcati, the vases will premiere at Superstudio 13 in Milan as part of the Temporary Museum for New Design’s event to showcase objects that symbolise Italian art and architecture.

Costa Cruises has announced that Costa Victoria will depart on its maiden Asian voyage on 18 May 2012, from the new Shanghai Wusongkou International Cruise Terminal in China. The ship will embark on four to seven night cruises, with calls along the South Korean and Japanese coastline.

Five more bodies have been discovered near to the spot where the Costa Concordia ran aground two months ago, bringing the total number of bodies that have been found to 30, with two still missing. The Costa Concordia had been carrying 4,200 passengers and crew when it crashed into rocks off the island of Giglio on January 13.

Carnival has reported a $139m (£83.6m) loss in the first quarter of 2012 compared to a $152m profit in the same period last year which it attributes mainly to the sinking of the Costa Concordia.

As many as 31 Britons are among those stranded onboard the Costa Allegra, which was left adrift in the Indian Ocean after an a fire caused a power failure. The Costa Cruises-operated vessel has now been taken in tow and is headed toward nearby islands where the 1,000-plus people onboard can be transferred to the Seychelles.

Attorneys representing many of the passengers who were aboard the doomed Costa Concordia Cruise Ship that capsized off the Italian coast in January are filing an Amended Complaint on behalf of thirty-nine individual plaintiffs in State Court before the Florida Circuit Court (11th Judicial Circuit) in Miami-Dade County.