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Carnival Announces Q3 Earnings

Carnival Corporation & plc announced U.S. GAAP net income of $1.3 billion, or $1.83 diluted EPS, for the third quarter of 2017 compared to U.S. GAAP net income for the third quarter of 2016 of $1.4 billion, or $1.93 diluted EPS. Third quarter 2017 adjusted net…

Carnival Corp. Sells Adonia to Azamara

Carnival Corp. announced that they will be selling P&O Cruises Adonia (ex-R Eight, Minerva II, Royal Princess) to Azamara Club Cruises. Interestingly enough, Azamara is owned by rival Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. She will enter a drydock in March 2018 and…

Costa Announces Newbuild Name

At the steel-cutting ceremony at Meyer Turku in Finland, Costa Cruises announced that their newest ship will be named Costa Smeralda. They also released this new rendering of her. She’ll be based on the AIDAnova class of vessels. These are…

Tour the Carnival Victory

I recently had the chance to board the Carnival Victory in Miami. While I was touring the vessel, I took the opportunity to photograph the ship for a comprehensive tour. This review will cover the public areas and staterooms. All…

Carnival Conquest Virtual Tour

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Two weeks ago I had the opportunity to board the Carnival Conquest in Port Everglades (Ft Lauderdale). While I was touring the vessel I took the opportunity to photograph the ship for CruiseInd. This review will cover the public areas.…

Carnival Splendor Virtual Tour

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Three weeks ago I had the opportunity to board the Carnival Splendor in Port Everglades (Ft Lauderdale). While I was touring the vessel I took the opportunity to photograph the ship for CruiseInd. This review will cover the public areas…

Carnival Corp Reports Q2 2017 Earnings

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Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK) announced U.S. GAAP net income of $379 million, or $0.52 diluted EPS, for the second quarter of 2017 compared to U.S. GAAP net income for the second quarter of 2016 of $605 million, or $0.80 diluted EPS. Second quarter…

AIDA Takes Delivery of AIDAperla

Carnival’s German brand, AIDA, have officially taken delivery of their newest vessel AIDAperla. She is the sistership to the AIDAprima which, when launched last year, became the first cruise ship to feature the vertical axe-bow. Their profile is rather unique…

Carnival Glory Photo Tour

I had the opportunity last month to board the Carnival Glory in Miami. This was it’s first cruise out of a drydock. No joke, she had that new ship smell and the carpets were extra spongy to walk on. Very…

Carnival Corp Reports Q1 2017 Earnings

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Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK) announced U.S. GAAP net income of $352 million, or $0.48 diluted EPS, for the first quarter of 2017 compared to U.S. GAAP net income for the first quarter of 2016 of $142 million, or $0.18diluted EPS. First quarter…

Carnival Vista Virtual Tour

I had the opportunity last month to board the Carnival Vista while it was being turned around in Miami. I used this to document the ship for CruiseInd. This review will encompass the public areas and a selection of cabins.…

AIDA Celebrates Steel Cutting for LNG Newbuild

Germany’s AIDA Cruises just celebrated the steel cutting for the first of their LNG Newbuilds. AIDA’s President AIDA Felix Eichhorn and Meyer Werft Managing Director Bernard Meyer pushed the button to start the first cutting of the first steel plate for the…

Carnival Cruise Lines Granted Permission to Sail to Cuba

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Carnival Cruise Lines has just been granted permission to sail to Cuba. Carnival will be sending the Carnival Paradise out of Tampa. She will be the highest capacity ship to sail to the island nation. 4 & 5-night cruises are…

Carnival Horizon To Be Homeported In Miami

Carnival announced today that the 2018-newbuild, Carnival Horizon, will be homeported in Miami. She’ll take up the Vista’s place once the Vista shifts over to Galveston. Prior to sailing to the states, the ship, currently under construction in Italy, will…

Carnival Corp Orders Two More Vessels

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Carnival Corporation announced they have reached an agreement with Fincantieri to build two new vessels. They will sail for Holland America and Princess. The Holland America ship will be built at Fincantieri’s shipyard in Marghera, Italy and will be delivered in 2021. It will…

Carnival Rotates Magic, Breeze and Vista Homeports

Carnival Cruise Line will reposition three of its newest and largest ships to new homeports. Starting in September 2018, Carnival Vista will move to Galveston, Carnival Breeze will reposition to Port Canaveral, and Carnival Magic will shift to Miami. Carnival…

All the Details on Carnival at CES 2017

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When Carnival Corp CEO Arnold Donald took the stage earlier today at the annual CES show in Las Vegas, he became the first travel industry executive to give a keynote at the show. Carnival went all out this year, their…

LIVEBLOG: Carnival Corp’s CES Announcement

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Carnival Corporation CEO Arnold Donald will take the stage at CES in Las Vegas in a few hours. Make sure to keep this page open as we will be updating it with all the details as they are announced. Watch…

Carnival To Launch Ocean Medallion Tomorrow at CES

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Carnival Corporation will launch something called Ocean Medallions at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas tomorrow. CEO Arnold Donald will take the stage to formally introduce the devices to the public. Here’s what they look like: And here’s what…

Carnival Corp Reports Q4 2016 Earnings

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Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK) announced U.S. GAAP net income for the full year 2016 of $2.8 billion, or $3.72 diluted EPS, compared to $1.8 billion, or $2.26 diluted EPS, for the prior year. Full year 2016 adjusted net income of $2.6 billion, or $3.45 adjusted EPS,…

Carnival Reshuffles Newbuilding Plan

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Carnival Corp. just announced a change to Carnival Cruise Lines and P&O Australia’s newbuild plans. Almost exactly a year ago, Carnival Corp announced that P&O Australia would be receiving their very first newbuild, a 135,500 gt, 4,200pax ship. At the…

Cruise Lines Get Approval For Cuba

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It’s official, US Cruise lines can now sail US passengers to Cuba from US ports. The US Government just handed approval to a bunch of cruise lines today. Let’s take a look. Royal Caribbean Cruises received approval for Royal Caribbean…

Carnival Corp. Pulls the Plug on fathom

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Carnival Corp has decided to send fathom’s Adonia back to UK’s P&O Cruises. They will not replace her with another ship. This effectively spells the end to the start-up line. Carnival Corp instead announced that social impact excursions, the focal…

Carnival Swaps Carnival Liberty and Valor

There is ongoing drama surrounding the Carnival Liberty. She’s finally sailing again after being stuck in Galveston with a bad alternator. The ship is due for a drydock in December so officials were hoping they could provide a temporary fix…

Carnival Vista Christened in New York

Even though the Carnival Vista had been sailing the summer in Europe, Carnival waited until she made her US arrival in order to name and christen her. At an overnight event held in New York, Miss USA, Deshauna Barber, christened the…