MIAMI, Aug. 16, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Carnival
Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK), the world's
largest leisure travel company, today signed an addendum to one of
its most strategic passenger terminal agreements, extending the
contract through 2030 with an additional five years of sailings to
and from Fort Lauderdale-based
Port Everglades, one of the world's top three cruise ports.
The addendum builds on the landmark 15-year agreement reached in
2010 with the Broward County Board
of County Commissioners and furthers Carnival Corporation's
commitment to Port Everglades, which overall has more than 3.6
million multi-day cruise passengers a year. Overall, the agreement
and business generated from Carnival Corporation's brands operating
at Port Everglades produces a significant positive economic impact
for the port and county.
As part of the addendum, Carnival Corporation will have
preferential use of Cruise Terminal 4, which reopened last year
after $24 million worth of
renovations and upgrades designed for greater efficiency and guest
convenience.
Additionally, the port is currently undertaking an estimated
$13.6 million slip extension project
on Terminal 4, expected to be complete by the middle of 2017, that
will lengthen the slip to accommodate larger cruise ships.
As part of the long-term agreement, the company also has
preferential use of three additional terminals, Cruise Terminals 2,
21 and 26, along with one additional terminal. This provides five
terminals in total for Carnival Corporation to serve its guests who
visit Fort Lauderdale as part of
their cruise vacation.
"Carnival Corporation is a critical Port Everglades partner, and
its many unique cruise line brands offer guests sailing into and
out of our port with a wide variety of cruise experiences and
itineraries," said Steve Cernak,
chief executive and port director of Port Everglades. "Carnival
Corporation has a strong, long-standing presence in the
Broward County community, and the
additional five years included in the agreement reinforces that
commitment. We look forward to welcoming the newest member of
Holland America Line's fleet, ms Koningsdam, to our sunny
shores in November."
Furthering its dedication to the port, the company will add a
second ship from its Carnival Cruise Line brand, Carnival Splendor,
to sail from Port Everglades during the 2017 summer season. In
addition to Carnival Cruise Line, six more of Carnival
Corporation's 10 global cruise line brands currently carry nearly a
million and a half passengers to and from Port Everglades each
year. These brands include Holland America Line, Costa Cruises,
Cunard Line, P&O Cruises UK, Princess Cruises and Seabourn. The
seven Carnival Corporation brands and 28 different ships account
for a combined average of more than 300 calls at the port each
year.
"Florida is the largest cruise
market in the world, and we are thrilled to extend our agreement
with Port Everglades, which is an extremely convenient and popular
location for our guests with close proximity to Fort
Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport and the Caribbean, the world's most popular region for
cruise vacations," said Giora
Israel, senior vice president of global port and destination
development for Carnival Corporation. "We place great value on the
long and successful relationship we have built with the port and
Broward County, and we look
forward to working together to meet our most important goal --
providing memorable vacation experiences for our guests for many
years to come."
As part of the original agreement, the port undertook a
$54 million cruise terminal
renovation project to make significant improvements to four
existing cruise terminals to accommodate ships from Carnival
Corporation's fleet of global cruise line brands. Enhancements made
as part of the project included features to enable simultaneous
embarkation and debarkation processes, including two passenger
loading bridges, separate and larger baggage halls and improved
ground transportation areas. As part of the extension, Carnival
Corporation and Port Everglades will engage in discussions to
examine the opportunity for possible further improvements to Cruise
Terminal 21 to accommodate Carnival Corporation's newest class of
ships.
About Carnival Corporation & plc
Carnival Corporation & plc is the largest leisure travel
company in the world, with a portfolio of 10 cruise brands
in North
America, Europe, Australia and Asia comprised
of Carnival Cruise Line, Fathom, Holland America
Line, Princess Cruises, Seabourn, AIDA
Cruises, Costa Cruises, Cunard, P&O
Cruises (Australia)
and P&O Cruises (UK).
Together, these brands operate 101 ships visiting over 700 ports
around the world and totaling 225,000 lower berths with 15 new
ships scheduled to be delivered between 2016 and
2020. Carnival Corporation & plc also operates
Holland America Princess Alaska Tours, the leading tour companies
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&P500 and the FTSE 100 indices.
Additional information can be found on www.carnivalcorp.com,
www.carnival.com, www.hollandamerica.com, www.princess.com,
www.seabourn.com, www.aida.de, www.costacruise.com, www.cunard.com,
www.pocruises.com.au, www.pocruises.com and www.fathom.org.
About Port Everglades
As one of South Florida's leading economic powerhouses,
Broward County's Port Everglades
is the gateway for international trade and cruise vacations.
Consistently ranked among the top three busiest cruise ports in the
world, Port Everglades is also one of the nation's leading
container ports and South
Florida's main seaport for receiving petroleum products
including gasoline, jet fuel and alternative fuels. The Port
Everglades Department is a self-supporting Enterprise Fund of
Broward County, Florida government
with operating revenues of approximately $153 million in Fiscal Year 2015 (October 1, 2014 through September 30, 2015). It does not rely on local
tax dollars for operations. The total value of economic activity
related to Port Everglades is nearly $30
billion. More than 226,500 Florida jobs are impacted by the Port,
including 12,840 people who work for companies that provide direct
services to Port Everglades. For more information on Port
Everglades, visit porteverglades.net or email
PortEverglades@broward.org.
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