Genting Hong Kong, which acquired the luxury cruise operator Crystal Cruises last year, said the acquisition has improved the performance of its cruise operations, while its net profit for 2015 should exceed $2.0 billion in the wake of gains of asset disposals disclosed earlier.

 "The improvement in segment results of our “cruise and cruise-related activities” was mainly due to the acquisition of and additional profit contribution from Crystal Cruises as well as absence of certain non- recurrent promotional spending," the company said. It did not disclose fresh financial figures regarding the performance of the operations that comprise the Asia focused contemporary market company Star Cruises and Los Angeles based Crystal Cruises. It did not disclose its 2015 figures, which will due released in March.

In its interim report for the first half of 2015 which the company published on 22 September, Genting Hong Kong reported net profit of $2.16 billion, sharply higher than the $216.7 million figure in the same period in 2014. The 2015 figure was lifted by $2.17 billion worth of asset sale gains, mostly consisting of shares in Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings.

The cruise operations generated total revenues of $265.1 million compared to $258.7 million in the same period in 2014 and a profit of $0.3 million compared to a loss of $13.5 million. These figures do not yet include Crystal Cruises.

"The board of directors of the Company (the “Board”) wishes to inform the shareholders, investors and potential investors of the Company that, based on the preliminary assessment of the latest unaudited financial information, excluding the share of results of Travellers, the Group is expected to record a net profit of not less than US$2 billion for the year ended 31 December 2015, as compared with a net profit, excluding the share of results of Travellers, of approximately US$331.7 million for the year ended 31 December 2014," Genting Hong Kong said in a statement today.