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Cruise Industry Analyst Weighs in on Crashes and Revenue - CRR 029

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Doug Parker

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4.8609 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Cruise industry analyst Stewart Chiron joins us to talk about the accident involving Carnival Glory and Carnival Legend in Cozumel, Mexico. We also talk about the shipyard delay of Mardi Gras and how it's impacting guests and Carnival Corporation's end of the year earnings call. 

Date: December 22, 2019

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0:00.0

You are listening to this is Cruise Radio Rewind. Real reviews from real cruisers.

0:08.3

What a crazy and busy month this has been, but I wouldn't trade it for the world. My name is Doug Parker.

0:13.6

Thanks for joining us here on Cruise Radio Rewind. So Carnival Marty Graw has been delayed a couple of months.

0:20.7

Also, Carnival Glory backed into Carnival Legend over in Cosmel on Friday morning.

0:26.9

And Carnival Corporation had a pretty good earnings call, actually, on Friday morning at 10 o'clock.

0:33.3

I sat at on that and a lot of good takeaways from it.

0:36.2

So here to break down all of these stories and weigh in on the earnings call is industry analyst, Stuart Shearron from cruisegui.com.

0:44.1

Stuart, thank you for coming on this morning.

0:46.0

Hey, Doug.

0:46.4

How's going?

0:47.0

Good, man.

0:47.6

Busy, busy week.

0:49.1

And we're going to start with the Friday morning news.

0:52.1

We all woke up to the first piece of news that Carnival's upcoming

0:56.6

LNG ship, Mardi Gras, was delayed. Give us some background on this.

1:02.1

Well, this is, Mardi Gras is going to be Carnival Cruise Line's first LNG ship, which is the

1:10.0

liquefied natural gas. They now have two ships

1:13.0

to have an LNG. Their IA brand, Aida Nova, which came out in last year, or 2018, 19 has

1:22.6

the LNG. The second ship, which was Casas Marelda, which was delayed, kind of figured, you know,

1:30.5

that if they're both being, you know, she and Mardi Gras being built in the same place.

1:34.8

So I kind of thought, well, I'm not going to be surprised if Mardi Gras delayed.

1:37.8

And so sure enough, it was delayed.

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