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This is Cruise Radio. Hey, I'm Matt Baskford. And I'm Doug Parker. Check us out online at Cruise Radio. dot com studios in jacksonville florida this is cruise radio hey i'm matt bassford and i'm

doug parker check us out online at cruise radio dot net on this show we'll talk to editor of

world of cruising magazine simon vinesse he was recently on the s s legacy a brand new ship from

uncruised adventures sailing up in the northwest so looking forward to that but first stewart

's here on the cruise guys here hello stewart Stuart. Hey, Matt. Hey, Doug. Hey, man. Hot off the press. Carnival Corp's third quarter earnings statement. How are they looking? Well, I think it was a lot better than a lot of the analysts expected. Not to get too much industry jargon, but their non-gap net revenue, which is really the truest picture

of a company when you exclude the one-time losses or unrealized gains and all that kind of stuff,

they dropped to $1.1 billion in the third quarter of 2013 versus $1.2 billion last year. But when you add all those other

one-time costs, they had a net profit of 934 million versus 1.3 billion in 2012. But there

were some interesting takeaways from the call where they announced that one for Carnival

Cruise Line through some market research that brand perception has been improving amongst

U.S. consumers.

Well, that's good.

Which is very good.

They also said that fleet-wide, the cruise bookings over for the next three-quarters,

excluding Carnival, was in line with 2012, but at higher prices.

Overall, including Carnival, they said bookings for the remaining months of 2013 and the first half of 2014

are behind the same time last year, but at the same

pricing. So there's some really optimistic tones in there that things, things are, you know,

for Carnival Corp, which, again, 10 cruise lines, 101, 102 cruise ships is on amends.

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