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MIAMI, March 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — On January 20, 2011, Carnival Corporation plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK) announced a quarterly cash dividend of $0.25 (U.S.) per share. The dividend is payable on March 11, 2011, to shareholders of record on February 18, 2011.
Holders of Carnival Corporation common stock or Carnival plc ADSs will receive a dividend payable in U.S. dollars. The dividend for Carnival plc ordinary shares will be payable in sterling unless shareholders elected to receive the dividend in U.S. dollars by February 18, 2011.
Dividends payable in sterling will be converted from U.S. dollars at the exchange rate quoted by the Bank of England in London at 12 noon on March 1, 2011 (US$1 = 61.43638 pence). Accordingly, the dividend payable in sterling on March 11, 2011, will be 15.35910 pence per share.
Carnival Corporation plc is the largest cruise vacation group in the world, with a portfolio of cruise brands in North America, Europe, Australia and Asia, comprised of Carnival Cruise Lines, Holland America Line, Princess Cruises, Seabourn, AIDA Cruises, Costa Cruises, Cunard, Ibero Cruises, PO Cruises (UK) and PO Cruises (Australia).
Together, these brands operate 98 ships totaling more than 191,000 lower berths with 10 new ships scheduled to be delivered between March 2011 and May 2014. 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 SP 500 and the FTSE 100 indices.
Additional information is available on-line at www.carnivalcorp.com and www.carnivalplc.com.
SOURCE Carnival Corporation
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