Carnival Corporation & plc, the world’s largest cruise shipping company, will publish its final quarter and full financial year to 30 November 2015 results on Friday, 18 December.

Analysts in London and New York estimate that full financial year earnings per share would rise to $2.60 from $1.96 in the same period a year earlier, while the mean estimate for the final quarter is $0.40, which compares to $0.27 reported for the final quarter of the 2014 financial year.

The Anglo-American company earlier this year said it would place orders foe a total of nine ships, two of which have been ordered sat Meyer’s shipyards in both Germany and Finland.

The remaining five ships would be ordered from Fincantieri in Italy. The company has not as yet published any details about them nor confirmed the orders, but it has stated that this would be done before the end of 2015.