{"id":8264,"date":"2013-03-17T12:00:15","date_gmt":"2013-03-17T16:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=8264"},"modified":"2013-03-17T05:36:44","modified_gmt":"2013-03-17T09:36:44","slug":"how-carnival-cruises-stays-afloat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/how-carnival-cruises-stays-afloat\/","title":{"rendered":"How Carnival Cruises Stays Afloat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/031713_0930_HowCarnival1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Carnival Cruise Lines has been in the news for all the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carnival_Cruises\">wrong<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Costa_Crociere\">reasons<\/a> recently. Yet it&#8217;s stayed in business thanks to the generous help of the US government writes Gwynn Guilford:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The US Coast Guard has spent millions of dollars on rescue operations for stranded passengers on Carnival Cruise Lines.<\/li>\n<li>Yet as a company incorporated in Panama (despite having its headquarters in Miami) Carnival doesn&#8217;t have to pay any US corporate income tax \u2013 meaning it gets the services of the US Coast Guard for free.<\/li>\n<li>By being incorporated outside the US it&#8217;s also able to avoid all the regulation and safety requirements that would probably help prevent such disasters.<\/li>\n<li>Despite the accidents travelers appear to have a short memory. Bookings recovered three weeks after the most <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.al.com\/live\/2013\/03\/carnival_ceo_announces_compreh.html\">recent incident<\/a>, likely helped along by generous promotions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the Senator trying to take action against Carnival Cruise Lines, a response from a company spokesperson, and a breakdown of what Carnival has cost the US coast guard over <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/63678\/one-of-the-secrets-to-carnival-cruises-unsinkable-business-model-free-coast-guard-rescues\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/63678\/one-of-the-secrets-to-carnival-cruises-unsinkable-business-model-free-coast-guard-rescues\/\">Quartz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carnival Cruise Lines has been in the news for all the wrong reasons recently. Yet it&#8217;s stayed in business thanks to the generous help of the US government writes Gwynn Guilford: The US Coast Guard has spent millions of dollars on rescue operations for stranded passengers on Carnival Cruise Lines. Yet as a company incorporated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/031713_0930_HowCarnival1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8264"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8269,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8264\/revisions\/8269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}