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Carnival’s Announcement-Quasi Live Blog

According to Carnival’s PR Puppet  in an offensive video just posted on youtube,  the event will be later today at an NYC club. Given Carnival’s past history of letdowns, I don’t believe anything big will happen, But if they want…

Carnival Q3 Earnings

Carnival Corporation & plc reported net income of $1.3 billion, or $1.69 diluted EPS, on revenues of $5.1 billion for its third quarter ended August 31, 2011. Net income for the third quarter of 2010 was $1.3 billion, or $1.62…

Carnival Breeze on Facebook + New Photos

Props to Carnival for hitting up Facebook BIG TIME! Social media has always seems to be overlooked in terms of a marketing strategy so its nice to see them utilizing all the tools Facebook offers. Visit www.facebook.com/carnival to view their…

Carnival To Create New Dominican Port [w/Pics]

Dominican Republic Tourism has announced the construction of a new $65 million cruise terminal in Maimon. Carnival Corporation will be an investor, according to media reports. Plans call for the terminal to berth two vessels and accommodate around 4,000 passengers…

Carnival Corp. Places 3 Ship Orders

Carnival Corp. announced 2 newbuild agreements they entered into. The first deal inked with Carnival Favorite Fincanteri, calls for one ship for Italian/European brand Costa Crociere. The unnamed vessel will come in at 132,500grt. making her the largest for Costa…

Carnival Dream Goes to the Movies

Here is a story our of left field. It turns out that the third installment of the heavily scoffed at Alvin and the Chipmunks series will be taking place on the Carnival Dream.  The series stars Arrested Development’s Tobias Fünke…

BREAKING: Imagination and Fantasy Allide in Key West

On Tuesday, as the Carnival Imagination was all tied up alongside Key West, she was bumped by the maneuvering Carnival Fantasy. No passengers were injured and the ships sailed safely from the ports. The ships only suffered a minor cosmetic…

Carnival Corp. Declares Dividend

Good news CCL stock holders. You are a bit richer today, as Carnival had declared a dividend today of $0.25 / share. The record date will be August 26, 2011, with payment, September 16, 2011.

Finance Friday: Carnvial’s 2Q Earnings

MIAMI, June 21, 2011 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK) reported net income of $206 million, or $0.26 diluted EPS, on revenues of $3.6 billion for its second quarter ended May 31, 2011. Net income for…

BREAKING: Carnival New York Deployment

Carnival will be making an announcement tomorrow morning about their future deployment out of New York. Stay tuned. If anything leaks beforehand, I’ll update the post.

Editorial: Well Its Official, South Carolina Sues Carnival

Carnival Sensation Sailing from Miami ©CruiseInd

In what would seem to be an inevitable action, the People of South Carolina have filed a lawsuit against Panama-based Carnival Cruise Lines. They claim that cruise ships hurt the environment [which no one is doubting], and that cruise lines…

BREAKING: Carnival to Sail Round Trip out of Boston

Carnival has just announced that in 2012 the Carnival Glory will sail part of her summer Canada and New England out of Boston. The voyages will mirror her current 2011 schedule with 4 & 5 Night trips to St. John…

Carnival Magic Interiors

Gene Sloan of USA Today’s CruiseLog posted a photo tour of the brand new Carnival Magic. Check out the insides here

Carnival Breeze Itinerary Details

Carnival Announced the itineraries for the final dream class vessel that will sail as the Carnival Breeze. Sailing in June 2012 she will start out with 12-night Med voyages, just like her sister, and then repo down to Miami where…

Carnival Magic Delivered

Carnival Corp., parent company for Carnival Crise Lines, accepted the delivery of the Carnival Magic, marking the 100th ship in the corporations history. After the ceremony the Magic will sail over to Venice where she’ll depart on her inaugural voyage…

Carnival Announces Carnival Magic’s Entertainment Details

From Carnival: Carnival Cruise Lines’ latest “Fun Ship,” the 130,000-ton Carnival Magic, is set to raise the bar on shipboard entertainment with some of the most spectacular shows ever seen at sea. In addition to three spellbinding stage shows that…