In the third quarter of the financial year 2011, period ended on 31 August, the U.S. cruise group Carnival Corporation & plc reported net income of 1.34 billion dollars on revenues of 5.06 billion dollars, with increases of 2.6 and 11%, 7% compared to 1.30 billion and 4.53 billion dollars in the period from June to August of 2010. Operating profit amounted to 1.43 billion dollars (+2.2%).
In the first nine months of the financial year 2011, the Group revenues totaled U.S. 12.10000000000 dollars, up 10.3% compared to 10.97 billion dollars in the corresponding period of 2010. Operating profit decreased by 2.9% to 1.95 billion and net income fell 2.0% to 1.69 billion dollars.
In the period from June to August this year the group's ships were boarded 2,676,000 passengers, an increase of 2.3% over the same period of 2010.In the period December 2010 - August 2011 were 7.192 million passengers, an increase of 4.4% over the corresponding period of 2010.
Commenting on these results today, the president and CEO of Carnival, Micky Arison, has announced that in the third quarter of 2011, the North American cruise brands in the group have performed well with an increase in revenues of almost 6%, while the revenues generated by European brands, Australian and Asian group decreased by 2% mainly due to geopolitical events in the Middle East and North Africa.
Arison noted that the overall growth in turnover has helped offset the 45% increase in the cost of fuel. "Despite the economic uncertainty - he continued - we have a solid base of activities for the first half of 2012 and the trend of reservations, there was substantial during the third quarter." The group said that bookings for cruises scheduled for the remainder of 2011 and the first half of next year are set at prices higher than the corresponding period last year, while the employment rate of the fleet is slightly lower.
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In the third quarter of the financial year 2011, period ended on 31 August, the U.S. cruise group Carnival Corporation & plc reported net income of 1.34 billion dollars on revenues of 5.06 billion dollars, with increases of 2.6 and 11%, 7% compared to 1.30 billion and 4.53 billion dollars in the period from June to August of 2010. Operating profit amounted to 1.43 billion dollars (+2.2%). 
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