MIAMI, Sept. 2, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- On
July 16, 2015, Carnival Corporation
& plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK) announced a quarterly cash
dividend of $0.30 (U.S.) per share.
The dividend is payable on September 11,
2015, to shareholders of record on August 21, 2015.
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
August 21, 2015.
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 September 1, 2015 (US$1 = 65.13385
pence). Accordingly, the dividend payable in sterling on
September 11, 2015, will be
19.54016 pence per share.
Carnival Corporation & plc is the largest cruise company in
the world, with a portfolio of 10 cruise brands in North America, Europe, Australia and Asia, comprised of Carnival Cruise Line,
Holland America Line, Princess Cruises, Seabourn, AIDA Cruises,
Costa Cruises, Cunard, P&O Cruises (Australia), P&O Cruises (UK) and
Fathom.
Together, these brands will operate 100 ships in 2015 totaling
219,000 lower berths with eight new ships scheduled to be delivered
between 2016 and 2018, along with an additional four ships on order
between 2019 and 2012. 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&P 500 and the
FTSE 100 indices.
Additional information can be found on 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.
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