Four Additional Carnival Corporation North American Brands Announce Month-Long Temporary Pause in Fleet Cruise Operations

MIAMI, March 13, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL NYSE: CUK), the world’s largest leisure travel firm, these days introduced that four supplemental North American cruise line brand names will just take a voluntary month-extensive pause, suspending new cruise voyages.

The pause in cruise operations is being produced out of an abundance of warning to assistance the international exertion to incorporate the unfold of the COVID-19 coronavirus.

“Through serving our several visitors who nonetheless wanted to travel, we have stood with all the men and women in the port communities here in the U.S., and in the other places we sail, who are dependent on us for their livelihood,” claimed Arnold Donald, CEO of Carnival Corporation. “And these days we stand with the nation as we with each other find to mitigate the unfold.”

Independently, each and every brand is speaking with visitors to offer direction relating to the disruption to their cruise vacations.

Date of resumed cruise operations also will be communicated by each and every respective brand and offered on their sites.

The firm and its brand names are also notifying crew associates, travel gurus, suppliers and other stakeholders.

About Carnival Corporation & plc
Carnival Corporation & plc is the world’s largest leisure travel firm with a portfolio of 9 of the world’s top cruise traces. With operations in North The us, Australia, Europe and Asia, its portfolio features Carnival Cruise Line, Princess Cruises, Holland The us Line, Seabourn, P&O Cruises (Australia), Costa Cruises, AIDA Cruises, P&O Cruises (United kingdom) and Cunard.

Jointly, the corporation’s cruise traces operate a hundred and five ships with 254,000 reduced berths traveling to around seven hundred ports around the globe, with sixteen new ships scheduled to be shipped via 2025. Carnival Corporation & plc also operates Holland The us Princess Alaska Tours, the top tour firm in Alaska and the Canadian Yukon. Traded on both the New York and London Inventory Exchanges, Carnival Corporation & plc is the only team in the globe to be provided in both the S&P five hundred and the FTSE 100 indices.

With a extensive record of innovation and furnishing visitors with incredible getaway ordeals, Carnival Corporation has been given thousands of industry awards – which include recognition by the Buyer Know-how Association™ as a CES® 2019 Innovation Awards Honoree for OceanMedallion™. A innovative wearable product that consists of a proprietary mix of conversation technologies, OceanMedallion allows the world’s very first interactive visitor expertise platform reworking getaway travel on a massive scale into a hugely customized amount of personalized service. The prestigious CES Innovation Awards honor exceptional style and design and engineering in client know-how goods.

Additional data can be located 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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