REG-Carnival PLC: Carnival Corporation Announcement

CarnivalAnnouncement

16/03/2020 07:05

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

The brands include Carnival Cruise Line, Cunard North America, Holland America
Line and Seabourn. The company's Princess Cruises brand previously announced
it is pausing operations for 60 Days

MIAMI, March 16, 2020 -- Carnival Corporation & plc
(https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2752291-1&h=2342355805&u=https%3A%2F%2Fnam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com%2F%3Furl%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fc212.net%252Fc%252Flink%252F%253Ft%253D0%2526l%253Den%2526o%253D2750091-1%2526h%253D899306213%2526u%253Dhttps%253A%25252F%25252Fwww.carnivalcorp.com%25252F%2526a%253DCarnival%252BCorporation%2525C2%2525A0%252526%252Bplc%26data%3D02%257C01%257Cvgulliksen%2540carnival.com%257C179d4a687d054bba471c08d7c7b6ed67%257C9e37b9e905de4906b089536f19689074%257C0%257C0%257C637197460807311712%26sdata%3DCGCYzrDShvSJhBGu%252FP4fB7yRXrg7WQovaUzbKPNQaZ0%253D%26reserved%3D0&a=Carnival+Corporation%C2%A0%26+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.

THIS ANNOUNCEMENT CONTAINS INSIDE INFORMATION

CONTACT:  Media Contact: Carnival Corporation Media Contacts: Roger Frizzell,
Carnival Corporation, rfrizzell@carnival.com, (305) 406-7862 or Mike Flanagan,
LDWW, mike@ldwwgroup.com, (727) 452-4538



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