Norwegian Cruise Line previews that the current trend of increase of own results will continue also in 2017



The group Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings, than work cruises with the marks Norwegian Cruise Line, Oceania Cruises and Regent Seven Seas Cruises, has concluded 2015 with a profit clearly of 427,1 million dollars, in increase of +24.7% regarding 342,6 million dollars in the exercise anniversary precedence. The revenues, graces mainly to the acquisition of the crocieristico brand Prestige Cruises International happened on November 19, 2014 for three billions of dollars and also to the contribution of the new Norwegian ship Escape entered in the fleet of the group at the beginning last November ( on September 2, 2014 and 22 October 2015), they are increased of +39.0% attesting itself to 4,34 billion dollars. The operating profit is piled to 702,5 million dollars (+39.7%).

In the solo fourth trimester of the 2015 group has totaled a profit clearly of 38,3 million dollars on revenues for 1,04 billion dollars respect to a net loss of -25,6 million dollars on revenues for 788,9 million dollars in the period October-December of the year precedence. The operating profit is gone up of +153.9% to 117,9 million dollars.

In entire the 2015 ships of the fleet of the group they have accommodated 2,16 million passengers regarding 2,13 million in 2014, while in the solo fourth trimester last year on fleeting the boarded ships they have been 549 thousand (- 12.5%).

The crocieristico group has announced that the level of the reservations for the cruises in development in 2016 is currently remarkablly advanced to the same period last year. Moreover the president and managing director of Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings, Frank Del Rio, have specified that "the company is finding a prosecuzione of this trend in the next year since the current state of the reservations for the first half of 2017 is of 30% about advanced respect to a year makes, respect to an ability that has grown of 5% approximately".

Currently the group has a fleet constituted from 22 ships for a read ability to 45 thousand and will take in delivery others five ships within 2019, of which two in the course of 2016: the next month the Siren, ship constructed in the 1999 that Princess Cruises has sold to Oceania Cruises, will enter to take part of the fleet of the company after the effettuazione of important renovations of the value of 40 million dollars, while in the course of the third trimester of this year Regent Seven Seas Cruises will take in delivery Regent Seven Explorer, that it will be the first new ship to enter in the fleet of this brand give beyond 13 years.