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Carnival Corporation & plc Declares Dividend, Appoints Board Committee Members and Announces Results of Annual General Meetings

MIAMI, April 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Following its annualshareholders meetings and boards of directors meetings held this week in CoralGables, Fla., Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK) hasannounced the declaration of a quarterly dividend, three board committeeappointments, and the results of the resolutions voted on at its annualgeneral meetings.

Quarterly Dividend Declared

On April 23, 2008, the boards declared a dividend of $0.40 per share. Theboards approved a record date for the quarterly dividend of May 23, 2008, anda payment date of June 13, 2008.

Holders of Carnival Corporation common stock and Carnival plc ADSs willreceive the dividend payable in U.S. dollars. The dividend for Carnival plcordinary shares will be payable in U.S. dollars or sterling. In the absenceof instructions or elections to the contrary, holders of Carnival plc ordinaryshares will automatically receive the dividend in sterling.

Dividends payable in sterling will be converted from U.S. dollars at theexchange rate quoted by the Bank of England in London at 12 noon on June 2,2008. Holders of Carnival plc ordinary shares wishing to receive theirdividend in U.S. dollars or participate in the Carnival plc DividendReinvestment Plan must elect to do so by May 23, 2008.

New Board Committee Appointments

Laura Weil was appointed as a member of the Compensation Committees,Richard Capen was appointed as a member of the Health, Environmental, Safety &Security Committees and resigned as a member of the Audit Committees, and UziZucker was appointed as a member of the Audit Committees.

These appointments fill the vacancies arising as a result of thepreviously announced retirement of Baroness Sarah Hogg as a member of theboards, who decided not to seek re-election at the latest annual meetings ofshareholders. The board committee appointments and retirement of BaronessSarah Hogg became effective April 22, 2008.

Annual General Meeting Results

All of the resolutions recommended by the board of directors were passedat the annual general meetings.

The results of the polls conducted at the annual general meetings will beavailable shortly on the company's web sites at www.carnivalcorp.com orwww.carnivalplc.com.

All resolutions passed by the company other than resolutions concerningordinary business have been submitted to the UK Listing Authority, and willshortly be available for inspection at the UK Listing Authority's DocumentViewing Facility, which is situated at:

Financial Services Authority
25 The North Colonnade
Canary Wharf
London
E14 5HS
Tel. No. (0) 20 7676 1000

Carnival Corporation & plc is the largest cruise vacation group in theworld, with a portfolio of cruise brands in North America, Europe andAustralia, comprised of Carnival Cruise Lines, Holland America Line, PrincessCruises, The Yachts of Seabourn, AIDA Cruises, Costa Cruises, Cunard Line,Ibero Cruises, Ocean Village, P&O Cruises and P&O Cruises Australia.

Together, these brands operate 86 ships totaling more than 162,000 lowerberths with 20 new ships scheduled to enter service between July 2008 and June2012. Carnival Corporation & plc also operates Holland America Tours andPrincess 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 theFTSE 100 indices.

SOURCE Carnival Corporation & plc

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