MSC Crociere S.A. / MSC Cruises / Mediterranean Shipping Cruises

Ocean Ships describes the funnel ground but does not specify the lettering colour; its monochrome MSC Lirica photograph confirms the arrangement.

The cruise flag is white with a very dark-blue compass rose of twelve direction marks. Its white central disc bears the MSC logo in the same near-black blue. The 2003 Lirica introduction brought the new compass branding, explained by the company as placing passengers centrally and representing the horizons towards which it sailed. MSC Opera supplies the funnel photograph; another unnamed vessel shows a narrow black top. MSC Sinfonia dressed overall in 2005 with alternating white-ground flags and reversed dark-blue versions, hung from their upper edges as banners. Rosanoski suggests that a proper reversed variant may therefore exist, but does not confirm it.