Carnival Corp. Announces Dividend Exchange Rate

Carnival Corporation & plc Announces Exchange Rate For Quarterly Dividend

MIAMI, Sept. 2, 2015 -- On July 16, 2015, Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK) announced a quarterly cash dividend of $0.30 (U.S.) per share. The dividend is payable on September 11, 2015, to shareholders of record on August 21, 2015.

Holders of Carnival Corporation common stock or Carnival plc ADSs will receive a dividend payable in U.S. dollars. The dividend for Carnival plc ordinary shares will be payable in sterling unless shareholders elected to receive the dividend in U.S. dollars by August 21, 2015.

Dividends payable in sterling will be converted from U.S. dollars at the exchange rate quoted by the Bank of England in London at 12 noon on September 1, 2015 (US$1 = 65.13385 pence). Accordingly, the dividend payable in sterling on September 11, 2015, will be 19.54016 pence per share.

Carnival Corporation & plc is the largest cruise company in the world, with a portfolio of 10 cruise brands in North America, Europe, Australia and Asia, comprised of Carnival Cruise Line, Holland America Line, Princess Cruises, Seabourn, AIDA Cruises, Costa Cruises, Cunard, P&O Cruises (Australia), P&O Cruises (UK) and Fathom.

Together, these brands will operate 100 ships in 2015 totaling 219,000 lower berths with eight new ships scheduled to be delivered between 2016 and 2018, along with an additional four ships on order between 2019 and 2012. Carnival Corporation & plc also operates Holland America Princess Alaska Tours, the leading tour companies in Alaska and the Canadian Yukon. Traded on both the New York and London Stock Exchanges, Carnival Corporation & plc is the only group in the world to be included in both the S&P 500 and the FTSE 100 indices.

Additional information can be found on http://www.carnival.com/, http://www.hollandamerica.com/, http://www.princess.com/, http://www.seabourn.com/, http://www.aida.de/, http://www.costacruise.com/, http://www.cunard.com/, http://www.pocruises.com.au/, http://www.pocruises.com/ and http://www.fathom.org/.

SOURCE  Carnival Corporation & plc

CONTACT:  MEDIA CONTACT, Carnival Corporation & plc, Roger Frizzell, 1 305 599 2600, ext. 67862; INVESTOR RELATIONS CONTACT, Carnival Corporation & plc, Beth Roberts, 1 305 406 4832