Carnival has archived item the December-February trimester with a net loss of 139 million dollars



The crocieristico group American Carnival Corporation & plc has archived item the first trimester of exercise 2012, than it has been concluded 29th February, with a net loss of 139 million dollars respect to a profit clearly of 152 million dollars in the correspondent trimester December 2010 - February 2011. The result of first trimester 2012 includes a relative loss of 173 million dollars to the reduction of the value of goodwill of the assets of the branch Ibero Cruises and a profit not realized of 21 million dollars on the by-products on fuel. The group American has specified that the result of first trimester 2012 13th January includes expenses for 29 million dollars determined from the shipwreck of the Costa Concordia ship of the filial coast cruises happened to Isola del Giglio.

In the first trimester of the exercise 2012 Carnival has recorded revenues in order almost 3,6 million dollars, in increase of 4.8% on the correspondent trimester of the exercise precedence. The operating result has been negative for 82 million dollars respect to an operating profit of 235 million dollars in the first trimester of exercise 2011.

Carnival has announced that currently the volume of reservations for the remaining part of 2012 recorded from the several crocieristici brands of the group, excluded Costa Crociere, is inferior of three points percentages in terms of occupation regarding the correspondent period of the slid exercise, while the prices of the cruises turn out advanced light. The volume of reservations from half January on 26 February past, excluded those to the brand Coast, have shown an increasing, but inferior trend of a percentage little beneath of 10% regarding the same period of 2011, while the prices of the cruises turn out to be light inferior. In the same period - it has specified the American company - the volumes of reservations for Costa Crociere remarkablly are diminished regarding last year and have turned out inferior also the prices of the cruises, to light also - it has evidenced Carnival - of the fact that Coast has practically interrupted all the activities of marketing in the course of the period.

"Our base of activity for 2012 - it has commented the president and managing director of Carnival Corporation, Micky Arison - is solid and the volume of the reservations is gradually recovering, what that we consider witnesses of the confidence of the consumers in the exceptional level of which showed safety in the time from the industry of the cruises. In spite of the bending of the reservations - it has explained - all our North American brands still preview an light improvement of the result in 2012, while our European marks, excluded Coast, preview to record an light inferior result partially because of the slow down of the European economies".

With the exclusion of the results of Coast, the group American previews to record the entire exercise anniversary 2012 with clean revenues online with those of the exercise precedence, while including Coast a decrease is attended of 2-4%. The waited for profit per.share not-GAAP for exercise 2012 is of 1,40-1,70 dollars regarding 2,42 in the exercise precedence.