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Carnival Corporation & plc Announces Exchange Rate for Quarterly Dividend

MIAMI, March 3, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- On January 15, 2008, CarnivalCorporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK) announced a quarterly cashdividend of $0.40 (U.S.) per share. The dividend is payable on March 14, 2008,to shareholders of record on February 22, 2008.

Holders of Carnival Corporation common stock or Carnival plc ADSs willreceive a dividend payable in U.S. dollars. The dividend for Carnival plcordinary shares will be payable in sterling unless shareholders elected toreceive the dividend in U.S. dollars by February 22, 2008.

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 March 3,2008 (US$1 = 50.43119 pence). Accordingly, the dividend payable in sterling onMarch 14, 2008, will be 20.17247 pence per share.

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 85 ships totaling more than 158,000 lowerberths with 22 new ships scheduled to enter service between April 2008 and May2012. 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.

Additional information is available on-line at www.carnivalcorp.com andwww.carnivalplc.com .

SOURCE Carnival Corporation & plc

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