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Carnival's Dickinson Advises Carnival Corporation & plc of Retirement Plans

Gerry Cahill to Take Top Post at Carnival Cruise Lines; David Bernstein to Become Senior Vice President and CFO of Carnival Corporation & plc

MIAMI, July 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Bob Dickinson, president and CEOof Carnival Cruise Lines, has informed Carnival Corporation & plc(NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK) that he will retire at the end of the year. He willremain on the company's board of directors.

Gerry Cahill, executive vice president and CFO of Carnival Corporation &plc, will assume Dickinson's responsibilities as president and CEO effectiveimmediately so that there is an ample transition period. David Bernstein,Carnival Corporation & plc's vice president and treasurer, will become thecompany's CFO, also effective immediately.

"I have been blessed to have had a long, fun-filled career helping tobuild Carnival and the cruise industry. I'm still having fun so giving all ofthat up has been a very difficult decision but I'll be 65 next month and havebeen pondering this with my family for some time," Dickinson said. "I lookforward to working with Gerry who will inherit what I believe is the mosttalented and dedicated management team in the cruise industry," he added.

"Bob has truly achieved legendary status in the travel industry. There issimply no other travel industry executive who is as well known and respectedas he," said Micky Arison, chairman and CEO of Carnival Corporation & plc.Arison called Dickinson, "one of the most influential people in thedevelopment of the modern-day cruise industry." He said that Dickinson wouldbe missed "not only by everyone here at Carnival, but by travel agents, hiscompetitors and the media who loved his often humorous sound bites."

Bob Dickinson joined Carnival Cruise Lines as executive vice president in 1972. He became senior vice president of sales and marketing in 1979. In 1993, he was promoted to president and in 2003 CEO was added to Dickinson's title. During his 35-year tenure at Carnival he has been very active in travel industry affairs having served as chairman of Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA), the Travel Industry Association (TIA), and the Miami Beach Visitors and Convention Authority and as vice-chair for the United States National Tourism Organization.

Gerry Cahill, 56, joined Carnival Corporation in 1994 as vice president -finance and in 1998 was promoted to senior vice president - finance and chieffinancial officer. In December 2003, he was named executive vice president andCFO. From 1988 to 1994, Cahill was with Safecard Services, Inc., a NYSE-listedcompany, where he served first as chief financial officer and then as chiefoperating officer. From 1979 to 1988, Cahill held financial posts at ResortsInternational, Inc., and prior to that spent six years with Price Waterhouse.

David Bernstein, 49, joined the Carnival group in 1998 as chief financialofficer of the company's Cunard Line and Seabourn Cruise Line operating units.In July 2003, he moved to Carnival Corporation & plc to become vice presidentand treasurer. He also spent seven years at Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. wherehe held various financial posts, including assistant controller, assistanttreasurer and director of corporate planning.

"Once again, our deep pool of talented people allows us to tap veryexperienced executives within our own organization to take over when our mostsenior executives make the decision to retire," said Arison.

"I'm very excited as this is a great opportunity," said Cahill. "I'vealways loved the 'Fun Ship' cruise experience and I can't think of a moreexciting job than to bring fun-filled vacations to millions of guests eachyear. Carnival Cruise Lines is already the most successful cruise brand in theworld and I look forward to working with the talented Carnival management teamto build on their accomplishments and to make the 'Fun Ship' cruise experiencethe best that it can possibly be," he added.

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, Seabourn Cruise Line, AIDA Cruises, Costa Cruises, Cunard Line, OceanVillage, P&O Cruises and P&O Cruises Australia.

Together, these brands operate 82 ships totaling 154,000 lower berths with17 new ships scheduled to enter service between December 2007 and June 2011.Carnival Corporation & plc also operates Holland America Tours and PrincessTours, the leading tour companies in Alaska and the Canadian Yukon. Traded onboth the New York and London Stock Exchanges, Carnival Corporation & plc isthe only group in the world to be included in both the S&P 500 and the FTSE100 indices.

SOURCE Carnival Corporation & plc

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