Of Boats and (Basket) Balls
The “Great Basket” called at Naples. On the occasion of the SeatradeMed convention dedicated to the cruise & ferry industry, Micky Arison, Chairman & CEO of Carnival Corporation & plc, the leading cruise group in the world that include also the Italian brand Costa Crociere, met the local authorities and representatives of the economic world. Arison, who is also Managing General Partner of the National Basketball Association’s (NBA) Miami Heat, the winner of the 2006 NBA Championship, could share his passion for basketball with Mario Maione, Chairman of Gruppo Industriale Maione and of the SS Basket Napoli, the winner of the latest edition of the Coppa Italia (Basketball Italy Cup).
Carnival Founder Ted Arison Dies
As initially reported in the October 1999 edition of Maritime Reporter & Engineering News, Ted Arison, a pioneer of the modern-day cruise industry, died in Tel Aviv, Israel, from heart failure. He was 75. Arison co-founded Norwegian Caribbean Lines in Miami in 1966. In 1972 he started Carnival Cruise Lines utilizing a refurbished former transatlantic liner. By the time he retired as chairman of Carnival in late 1990, the company had become a three-brand line, Carnival Cruise Lines and Holland America Line, and Windstar Cruises operating 15 ships. As the organization continued to grow, a corporate holding company, Carnival Corporation, was created in 1993.