Thread: Carnival Corporation Shareholders - 2007 Voting

I got an e-mail from my broker yesterday regarding this year's annual meeting, with links to the proxy vote, and from there, the proxy materials and the annual report.

Most of the recommendations are pretty standard, but there were some interesting things on the ballot due to British law. There was also a question about going to all electronic communications, because in the UK:
The key change made by the Companies Act 2006 is that shareholders are assumed to have agreed to
Carnival plc publishing documents and information on a website in lieu of delivering paper copies of the
materials to the shareholders if certain conditions are met and procedures followed. Shareholders can,
however, ask for a hard copy of any document at any time.

I thought there was much food for thought in the proxy report, so I thought that it would to put up a thread for people to discuss things, before the ballots are due in mid April. It might also be interesting for people who are considering purchasing Carnival stock or even a cruise on a Carnival-owned line.

I put the thread on the Carnival forum, since I wanted one thread for all stockholders regardless of line preference, and it seemed like the easiest place to put it. The link to the thread is:
http://www.cruiselinefans.com/carniv...tml#post734511 (Carnival Corporation Shareholders - 2007 Voting) (Carnival Corporation Shareholders - 2007 Voting) (Carnival Corporation Shareholders - 2007 Voting)

Any mention of Costa expanding its North and South American destinations? I heard that Trans Panama Canal cruises were contemplated.
Also, what is a frubal?
ALBERTO