Carnival Corporation has closed the first trimester of exercise 2013 with a profit clearly of 37 million dollars



In the first trimester of fiscal year 2013, than it has been concluded 28th February, the crocieristico group American Carnival Corporation & plc it has recorded a profit clearly of 37 million dollars respect to a net loss of 139 million dollars in the first trimester of the exercise precedence, liabilities that were generated by extraordinary burdens and losses deriving from the reduction of the value of assets ( on 9 March 2012). In the period November 2012 - February 2013 the revenues have remained almost stable attesting almost 2,6 billion dollars (+0.3%). The operating result has been positive for 145 million dollars respect to operating liabilities of 82 million dollars in the first trimester of fiscal year 2012.

If in the first trimester of the exercise the 2012 activity of Carnival has accused the impact negative of the shipwreck of Costa Concordia, in the first trimester of the current exercise the group has had to tackle to another certainly less serious emergency of the disaster been necessary to the ship of the Costa Crociere branch, but anything but negligible: to half last month in the Gulf of Mexico the cruise ship Carnival Triumph of the Carnival Cruise Lines branch, with on board beyond 4.000 people, has remained for some days without propulsion and electricity and at last is towed in the port of Piece of furniture. According to trimester of exercise 2013 it has been opened with other operating problems: Wednesday slid on another ship of the fleet of Carnival Cruise Lines, Carnival Dream, has happened a malfunctioning of the wiring whom the company has forced to interrupt the cruise and to make to disembark the passengers. Yesterday, moreover, technical problems on board of the ship Carnival Legend have forced the company to vary and to shorten the duration of the cruise.

Commenting the results achieved from the group in first trimester 2013, the president and managing director of Carnival Corporation, Micky Arison, it has explained that, "in spite of the remarkable attention for the event of Carnival Triumph", "the level of reservations for Carnival Cruise Lines has been raised meaningfully in the last weeks". However, at the moment, the level of reservations recorded altogether from the companies of the group turns out to be inferior to that last year, while the level of the prices of the cruises - it has specified Carnival - is online with that of the same period of 2012.