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Ocean Carriers is evaluating a proposed lease for a ship over three years starting in 2003. Currently, Ocean Carriers does not have any ships that are available to meet this customer demand. This report will assist VP of Finance Mary Lynn to make a decision on whether or not to commission a new carrier and how long to hold on to this asset.

Carnival is “The World’s Most Popular Cruise Line” with 24 “Fun Ships” operating voyages ranging from three to 16 days in length to the Bahamas, Caribbean, Mexican Riviera, Alaska, Hawaii, Canada, New England, Europe, and Bermuda. Carnival’s success is attributed to its marketing program directed towards

Copa Cruises - Welcome Aboard! Copa Cruises is a 40-year old company that offers dining and sightseeing cruises. What started with only one ship at Maryland’s Eastern Shore, is now a big business operating at multiple locations with 40 vessels. Copa operates scheduled tours at least twice daily during the peak travel/tourism seasons at each of its locations. The total number of scheduled tours varies based on the number of vessels available at each location. Copa also offers its ships exclusively for groups. In fact, a significant portion of Copa’s revenues come from group bookings. Typically, group customers book for corporate events, weddings, or private celebrations (e.g. family reunion). Copa customizes the table arrangement, the deck,

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The ninth brand that carnival owns is Fathom. Fathom is not your ordinary cruise. Fathom is classified as an impact travel, which means you travel to the Dominican Republic and Cuba for seven days and works side by side with local residents to improve the lives of children, families and the community. (What Is Impact Travel – Fathom) As of now Carnival Cruise Lines, Inc. has over 100 ships and another seven ships are scheduled to be delivered between January 2015 and March 2017. With many locations all across the globe from North America, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, and Australia. (Media Center)

CCA Global is a cooperative based out of Manchester, New Hampshire and has offices in St. Louis, Missouri, Burlington, Ontario, and Australia. (CCA Global, 2017) The cooperative was founded 1984 by Howard Brodsky and Alan Greenberg and after a short time later Sandy Mshkin under the name Carpet Co-op of America. (CCA Global, 2017) Eventually over time the name CCA Global would emerge as the cooperative expanded its reach into Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The cooperatives mission statement says, “Our mission is to empower entrepreneurs and independent business owners by providing the scale, resources and innovation that create sustainability, growth and effective competition in today’s evolving marketplace.” (CCA Global, 2017) Some of

As the number of cruise ships continues to increase in the industry, domination by a few companies continues to rise. Carnival Corporation & plc is one of the largest cruise companies in the world has put orders for three new cruise ships to be built in China. This is in order to have cruise ships that are going to different routes at a time, hence serving a more diverse customer base (Vairo, Quagliati, Del Giudice, Barbucci, & Fabiano, 2017). The company has already almost exhausted the older generation of its customers. Carnival Corporation & plc has however found it hard to attract the younger generation.

Introduction Carnival Cruise Line was found in the United States by Ted Arison in 1972, it is based in Miami, Florida. Now it is one of the nine cruise ships that own 21.1 % of the worldwide market share. The main control of the Carnival Cruise line is located in Doral, Florida. This cruise line is relatively inexpensive and popular for a Las Vegas-style decoration and entertainment.

Carnival Corporation & PLC is the largest passenger cruise ship company owning over one hundred vessels across the globe. Costa Cruise is one of ten cruise line brands owned by Carnival Corporation & PLC. Costa Cruise operates out of Genoa Italy and operates the vessel named the Concordia. On January 13, 2012 at 10:00 pm the Costa Concordia cruise ship began to sink after hitting a rock off the west coast of Italy. The ship was only hours into its trip when its Captain Federico Schettino took the vessel off course to sail close to a small Italian island named Giglio. According to Squires (2014), Schettino wanted to salute a retired naval officer and his head waiters family on the island, and to provide a spectacle to passengers. By the time

Carnival Corporation is the largest cruise company in the industry. They have over 100 ships across many different brands. They sell cruises to anyone around the world, as long as they have access to the ports of departure. Carnival produces, or buys, their ships from numerous shipyards in Europe, most often in Scandinavia and the Baltic and North Seas. These vessels provide tourists with food, shelter, travel, and many other amenities as well, for a base price with additional add-ons that are optional.

CMI was a wholly owned subsidiary of Northwest Equipment Corporation, a major freight transporter and lessor of railcars, commercial aircraft, and other industrial equipment and was a reputedly successful company particularly since Merrill Lynch had voiced interest in it and it had won the interest of Metropolitan Realty Network, a national association of independent real estate brokers (otherwise called MetroNet).

There are nine main cruise line, these include Ambassador International, Carnival Corporation, Crystal Cruises, Disney Cruise Lines, Louis Cruises, Regent Seven Seas Cruise Lines, Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd., Silversea Cruises and Star Cruises (Cruising). The major cruises out of these are Royal Caribbean and Carnival Corporation. These cruises line are known for using their popularity to their advantage by raising their prices at any given time. But on the other hand, all the ships are comparable. All passage can anticipate the equivalent experience on board. In addition Rivalry is at a peek because getting rid of a cruise industry cost more than to just keep into development.

Carnival Corporation as the largest cruise line in the world is being a leader and innovator in the cruise line industry. Many of the onboard activities and services were introduced to strengthen the competencies between competitors. The challenges of the Carnival were being overcome by the management with creative and innovative strategies. As a corporate entity, Carnival did not refuse to withdraw money to settle the ocean pollution charged by public. The expansions of cruise line market via acquisition of a few subsidiaries dominate the cruise line in the world.

Their vision is “to become a world-class air cargo service provider with global reach”, and they believe that to achieve this vision, they need to focus on their working quality, reliability, and world-class network (QR Cargo).

Meghna Cement Industries Ltd.: MCML is a sister concerned of “Basundhara Group”. It placed on 1993 and went on commercial production on ‘January 15,1996″. MCML is located in the southern part of Bangladesh of the bank of ‘Possur’. It is the largest cement factory of Bangladesh. It’s capacity for production 1.5 million MT per