MIAMI, March 13, 2020
/PRNewswire/ -- Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE:
CCL; NYSE: CUK), the world's largest leisure travel company, today
announced that four additional North American cruise line brands
will take a voluntary month-long pause, suspending new cruise
voyages.
The pause in cruise operations is being made out of an abundance
of caution to support the global effort to contain the spread of
the COVID-19 coronavirus.
"Through serving our many guests who still wanted to travel,
we've stood with all the people in the port communities here in the
U.S., and in the other places we sail, who are dependent on us for
their livelihood," said Arnold
Donald, CEO of Carnival Corporation. "And today we stand
with the nation as we together seek to mitigate the spread."
Individually, each brand is communicating with guests to provide
direction regarding the disruption to their cruise vacations.
Date of resumed cruise operations also will be communicated by
each respective brand and available on their websites.
The company and its brands are also notifying crew members,
travel professionals, suppliers and other stakeholders.
About Carnival Corporation & plc
Carnival
Corporation & plc is the world's largest leisure travel
company with a portfolio of nine of the world's leading cruise
lines. With operations in North America, Australia,
Europe and Asia, its
portfolio features Carnival Cruise Line, Princess Cruises, Holland
America Line, Seabourn, P&O Cruises (Australia), Costa Cruises, AIDA Cruises,
P&O Cruises (UK) and Cunard.
Together, the corporation's cruise lines operate 105 ships with
254,000 lower berths visiting over 700 ports around the world, with
16 new ships scheduled to be delivered through 2025. Carnival
Corporation & plc also operates Holland America Princess
Alaska Tours, the leading tour company in Alaska and the
Canadian Yukon. Traded on both the New York and London
Stock Exchanges, Carnival Corporation & plc is the
only group in the world to be included in both the S&P 500 and
the FTSE 100 indices.
With a long history of innovation and providing guests with
extraordinary vacation experiences, Carnival Corporation has
received thousands of industry awards – including recognition by
the Consumer Technology Association™ as a CES® 2019 Innovation
Awards Honoree for OceanMedallion™. A revolutionary wearable device
that contains a proprietary blend of communication technologies,
OceanMedallion enables the world's first interactive guest
experience platform transforming vacation travel on a large scale
into a highly personalized level of customized service. The
prestigious CES Innovation Awards honor outstanding design and
engineering in consumer technology products.
Additional information can be found on www.carnival.com,
www.princess.com, www.hollandamerica.com, www.seabourn.com,
www.pocruises.com.au, www.costacruise.com, www.aida.de,
www.pocruises.com and www.cunard.com.
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