This object was created by Fran Golden, a journey consultant and Trip Coach for Budget Travel magazine. Golden is portion as Guest Editor of The Cruise Log while USA TODAY Cruise Editor Gene Sloan is away.
In a arise of a Costa Concordia tragedy, Carnival Corp. says it will do “a extensive examination and examination of all reserve and puncture response procedures” opposite all 9 of a brands.
In serve to Costa Cruise Lines, those brands embody Carnival Cruise Lines, Holland America Line, Princess Cruises and Cunard Line.
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Carnival Corp. Chairman Micky Arison, in a prepared statement, says a tragedy “has called into question” a company’s reserve practices and puncture response procedures.
“While we have each certainty in a reserve of a vessels and a professionalism of a crews, this examination will weigh all practices and procedures to make certain that this kind of collision doesn’t occur again,” Arison says.
To lead a audit, Carnival Corp. is branch in-house to Captain James Hunn, a late U.S. Navy captain and now a company’s comparison clamp boss of Maritime Policy Compliance.
A 32-year Navy veteran, Hunn has been with a association for some-more than a decade in several positions. He will work with comparison executives from all a brands to examination “all reserve and puncture response policies and procedures, officer and organisation training and evaluation, overpass government and company-wide response and support efforts,” Carnival says.
Hunn will news to Carnival Corp. Vice Chairman and COO Howard Frank.
The association is also bringing in outward attention experts to examination a Costa Concordia accident, specifically.
“This company-wide beginning will brand lessons schooled and best practices to serve safeguard a confidence and reserve of all of a passengers and crew,” Frank says.
Carnival says it also supports an industry-wide call for a extensive examination of journey boat reserve by a International Maritime Organization.
