Costa Diadema, the future flagship of Costa Cruises, touched water for the first time during the technical launch ceremony at the Fincantieri shipyard in Marghera.

The 132,500-ton, 3,724-passenger ship is scheduled for delivery on October 30, 2014. Costa Cruises has invested around €550 million in her construction. This is the 10th cruise ship built in Italy by Fincantieri for Costa since 2000, representating a total investment of almost €5 billion.

Gold purchase and storage service launched

A new company has been launched in Malta which purchases gold of behalf of investors and stores it in high-security facilities.

Global Gold (Malta) is a joint venture between Bastion Holdings Ltd, the holding company of Fexserv Financial Services Ltd, and Global Gold Ag of Zurich, Switzerland.

Global Gold Ag of Zurich is a broker of gold, silver, platinum and palladium bars and coins – sourced exclusively from a select group of refiners and mints – and provides high-security storage facilities in Switzerland.  Assets can be retrieved once Global Gold receives instructions directly from their owner and the precious items may be delivered upon request to anywhere in the world. However, unlike with financial instruments based on gold, the investor can retrieve the gold at any time.

Global Gold (Malta) has been set up to market the service in Malta and a number of North African and Maghreb countries.

The service is currently available in Malta and will be available in North African countries as from January 2014.

New Sovereign office opened

Sovereign Trust (Malta) Ltd has moved into new offices, in order to cope with its expansion. The offices were opened by Economy Minister Chris Cardona. ST (M) Ltd forms part of the Sovereign Group which has 26 offices worldwide.

Managing director Stephen Griffiths said the company’s business has been growing exponentially, especially in the pension’s scheme sector, which will lead to the recruitment of more employees over the next year.

New website for ISO specialist

Local ISO 9001 certification specialist Step has unveiled its new website, developed internally and produced in tandem with Cybermax Creations.

Step is a young, rapidly expanding company specialising in ISO 9001 certification and internal audits. Recently, the Step team celebrated the milestone of helping over 25 clients get ISO 9001 certification in less than one year.

http://www.iso9001malta.com/

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