Together Carnival Corporation & Carnival plc is the largest cruise vacation group in the world. The company operates under the names of Carnival Cruise Lines, Holland America Line, Princess Cruises, Seabourn, AIDA Cruises, Costa Cruises, Cunard, Ibero Cruises, P&O Cruises (UK) and P&O Cruises ( Australia ). This range of ships gives Carnival tremendous reach in North America. Europe. Australia and Asia. Carnival Corporation & plc also operates Holland America Princess Alaska Tours, the leading tour company in Alaska and the Canadian Yukon, which ties in with their extensive Alaska cruise business.
Credit: Wikipedia Creative Commons Grown organically and through acquisition (including the combination with P&O Princess in 2003), Carnival Corporation today is the cruise industry leader because they carry about 47% of global cruise passengers. Together, these Carnival brands operate 101 ships with over 196,000 lower berths and they are planning to add 10 new ships to be delivered between April 2012 and March 2016.
2011 reported revenues are $15.8 billion and 2011 net income was $1.9 billion.
Carnival Corporation & plc is the only group in the world to be included in both the S&P 500 (New York) and the FTSE 100 indices (London).