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Messina recalls that Carnival Corpo- proved to be wrong. But as the decision ration asked Fincantieri to delay the deci- was finally made, Fincantieri implement- sion on whether to assign Project 6135 – ed the technical and layout arrangements technical name of the newbuilding project desired by CCL on the platform and the – to Carnival Cruise Lines or Costa Cro- switch worked out like a charm. ciere. “CCL were actually interested on a RIDING THE RISK ‘winterized’ version of the Conquest class Looking at other challenges during the – including central lido with sliding roof, construction, Messina names risk man- large SPA facility and so on – same as we agement as the key challenge. were building for Costa Crociere: Costa “Ships of this kind are floating villag- Concordia and Costa Serena,” Messina es, on which all vital functions have to be looks back. assured, from production of potable water “So basically what we did was to to food waste management, including in- start designing, procuring and building cinerators,” he says, adding that a Project what could be the ‘common parts’ of the Manager is responsible for time, costs and two platforms, while waiting for the fi- quality of such a project. Giuseppe Messina, Project Manager for Carnival Splendor. tennas” on what’s going on, discern sig- Of course, countless variables can nificant events among thousands, capture Messina says that the shipyard had impact negatively during the newbuilding and read weak signals, look well ahead a perception that the vessel would be as- process, Messina points out. For this rea- and – most importantly – act decisively on signed to Costa at the end, but that hunch son, the management must have big “an- everything that might derail the project. nal decision.” seatec 2/2008 37