At August 31, 2020, our short-term borrowings consisted primarily of $3.0 billion borrowing under our multicurrency revolving credit facility (the “Revolving Facility”), $314 million of commercial paper, $20 million of euro-denominated commercial paper and $33 million of sterling-denominated commercial paper. For the nine months ended August 31, 2020, we had borrowings of $525 million and repayments of $192 million of commercial paper with original maturities greater than three months. For the nine months ended August 31, 2019, there were no borrowings or repayments of commercial paper with original maturities greater than three months.

In April 2020, we issued $4.0 billion aggregate principal amount of 11.5% first-priority senior secured notes due in 2023 (the “2023 Secured Notes”). The 2023 Secured Notes mature on April 1, 2023 unless earlier redeemed or repurchased. They are guaranteed by Carnival plc and certain of our subsidiaries that own or operate our vessels and material intellectual property, and are secured by collateral, which includes vessels and material intellectual property with a net book value of $27.9 billion as of August 31, 2020 and certain other assets. Upon the occurrence of certain change of control events, we are required to offer to repurchase the 2023 Secured Notes at a price equal to 101% of the principal amount, plus accrued and unpaid interest to the purchase date.

The indenture governing the 2023 Secured Notes contains covenants that limit our ability to, among other things: (i) incur additional indebtedness or issue certain preferred shares; (ii) make dividend payments on or make other distributions in respect of our capital stock or make other restricted payments; (iii) make certain investments; (iv) sell certain assets; (v) create liens on assets; (vi) consolidate, merge, sell or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of our assets; and (vii) enter into certain transactions with our affiliates. These covenants are subject to a number of important limitations and exceptions.

In April 2020, we issued $2.0 billion aggregate principal amount of 5.75% convertible senior notes due 2023 (the “Convertible Notes”). The Convertible Notes mature on April 1, 2023, unless earlier repurchased or redeemed by us or earlier converted in accordance with their terms prior to the maturity date. The Convertible Notes are guaranteed on a senior unsecured basis by Carnival plc, Carnival Finance, LLC and our subsidiaries that guarantee the 2023 Secured Notes.

The Convertible Notes are convertible by holders, subject to the conditions described below, into cash, shares of Carnival Corporation common stock, or a combination thereof, at our election. The Convertible Notes have an initial conversion rate of 100 shares of Carnival Corporation common stock per $1,000 principal amount of the Convertible Notes, equivalent to an initial conversion price of $10 per share of common stock. The initial conversion price is subject to certain anti-dilutive adjustments and may also increase if the Convertible Notes are converted in connection with a tax redemption or certain corporate events.

•during any fiscal quarter, (and only during such fiscal quarter), if the last reported sale price of the common stock for at least 20 trading days (whether or not consecutive) during a period of 30 consecutive trading days ending on the last trading day of the immediately preceding fiscal quarter is greater than or equal to 130% of the conversion price on each applicable trading day;

•during the five business day period after any five consecutive trading day period (the “measurement period”) in which the trading price per $1,000 principal amount of Convertible Notes for each trading day of the measurement period was less than 98% of the product of the last reported sale price per share of common stock and the conversion rate on each such trading day;

We may redeem the Convertible Notes, in whole but not in part, at any time on or prior to December 31, 2022 at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest to the redemption date, if we or any guarantor would have to pay any additional amounts on the Convertible Notes due to a change in tax laws, regulations or rulings or a change in the official application, administration or interpretation thereof.

As of August 31, 2020, a condition allowing holders of the Convertible Notes to convert has been met and therefore the notes are convertible. The holders are entitled to convert all or any portion of their Convertible Notes at any time during the three months starting on September 1, 2020 and ending on November 30, 2020, at the conversion rate of 100 shares of Carnival Corporation common stock per $1,000 principal amount of Convertible Notes.

In August 2020, we completed a registered direct offering of 99.2 million shares of Carnival Corporation common stock at a price of $14.02 per share to a limited number of holders of the Convertible Notes. We used the proceeds of the stock offering to repurchase from such holders $886 million aggregate principal amount of the Convertible Notes in privately negotiated transactions, (such registered direct offering and the use of proceeds to repurchase the Convertible Notes, the “Convertible Notes Repurchase Transaction”). We recognized a $224 million extinguishment loss as a result of these transactions in other income (expense), net.

The carrying amount of the equity component representing the conversion option was $286 million on the date of issuance and was calculated by deducting the carrying value of the liability component from the initial proceeds from the Convertible Notes. The excess of the principal amount of the Convertible Notes over the carrying amount of the liability component represents a debt discount that is amortized to interest expense over the term of the Convertible Notes under the effective interest rate method using an effective interest rate of 12.9%. The carrying amount of the equity component was reduced to $0 in conjunction with the partial repurchase of Convertible Notes in August 2020 because at the time of repurchase, the fair value of the equity component for the portion of the Convertible Notes that was repurchased, exceeded the total amount of the equity component recorded at the time the Convertible Notes were issued.

In June 2020, we borrowed an aggregate principal amount of $2.8 billion in two tranches ($1.9 billion and €800 million), under a first-priority senior secured term loan facility that matures on June 30, 2025 (the “2025 Secured Term Loan”). The U.S. dollar tranche bears interest at a rate per annum equal to adjusted LIBOR (with a 1% floor) plus 7.5%. The euro tranche bears interest at a rate per annum equal to EURIBOR (with a 0% floor) plus 7.5%. The 2025 Secured Term Loan is guaranteed by Carnival plc and the same subsidiaries that currently guarantee, and are secured on a first-priority basis by substantially the same collateral that currently secures, the 2023 Secured Notes, the 2026 Secured Notes and the 2027 Secured Notes. The 2025 Secured Term Loan contains covenants that are substantially similar to the covenants in the indenture governing the 2023 Secured Notes. These covenants are subject to a number of important limitations and exceptions.

In July 2020, we issued an aggregate principal amount of $1.3 billion in two tranches ($775 million and €425 million), under second-priority senior secured notes that mature on February 1, 2026 (the “2026 Secured Notes”). The U.S. dollar tranche bears interest at a rate of 10.5% per year. The euro tranche bears interest at a rate of 10.1% per year. The 2026 Secured Notes are guaranteed by Carnival plc and the same subsidiaries that currently guarantee, and are secured on a second-priority basis by substantially the same collateral that currently secures, the 2023 Secured Notes, the 2025 Secured Term Loan and the 2027 Secured Notes. The indenture governing the 2026 Secured Notes contains covenants that are substantially similar to the covenants in the indenture governing the 2023 Secured Notes and the 2027 Secured Notes. These covenants are subject to a number of important limitations and exceptions.

In August 2020, we issued an aggregate principal amount of $900 million of second-priority senior secured notes that mature on August 1, 2027 (the “2027 Secured Notes”). The 2027 Secured Notes bear interest at a rate of 9.9% per year. The 2027 Secured Notes are guaranteed by Carnival plc and the same subsidiaries that currently guarantee, and are secured on a second-priority basis by substantially the same collateral that currently secures, the 2023 Secured Notes, the 2025 Secured Term Loan and the 2026 Secured Notes. The indenture governing the 2027 Secured Notes contains covenants that are substantially similar to the covenants in the indenture governing the 2023 Secured Notes and the 2026 Secured Notes. These covenants are subject to a number of important limitations and exceptions.

As of August 31, 2020, we repurchased in the open market $86 million aggregate principal amount of our $700 million 4.0% notes due in 2020 and $123 million aggregate principal amount of our $555 million 1.6% euro notes due in 2021. We recognized a related gain on early extinguishment of debt of $5 million. This gain is included in other income (expense), net in the accompanying Consolidated Statements of Income (Loss).

Certain export credit agencies have offered 12-month debt amortization and a financial covenant holiday (the “Debt Holiday”). We have entered into supplemental agreements or side letters for the Debt Holiday amendments to defer certain principal repayments otherwise due through March 31, 2021 through the creation of separate tranches of loans with repayments made over the following four years.

(a)Excluding the Revolving Facility. As of August 31, 2020, borrowings under the Revolving Facility were $3.0 billion, which were drawn in March 2020 for an initial term of six months. The maturities for these borrowings were extended in September 2020 for an additional six months through March 2021. We may re-borrow such amounts subject to satisfaction of the conditions in the Revolving Facility Agreement.

(b)We have a principal balance of $0.5 billion and $0.8 billion of debt outstanding as of August 31, 2020, otherwise due through 2032, for which covenant waivers expire during the second quarter 2021 and fourth quarter 2021, respectively. We are working on extending these covenant waivers. If the covenant waiver extensions are not received, we would be required to prepay the outstanding principal balance.

Under the terms of certain of our debt facilities, we are required to maintain minimum debt service coverage (EBITDA to consolidated net interest charges for the most recently ended four fiscal quarters) of not less than 3.0 to 1.0 at the end of each fiscal quarter (the “Financial Covenant”). As of August 31, 2020, we have entered into supplemental agreements or side letters to amend our agreements with respect to this Financial Covenant to:

Subsequent to August 31, 2020, we extended the Financial Covenant waivers for our funded export credit facilities through at least November 30, 2021 (with the next testing date of February 28, 2022) except that for three of our funded export credit facilities with Financial Covenant waivers through March 31, 2021 (with the next testing date of May 31, 2021) or August 31, 2021 (with the next testing date of November 30, 2021), with total aggregate indebtedness of $1.3 billion as of August 31, 2020, we are currently engaged in discussions to extend the waivers for these facilities through November 30, 2021 (with the next testing date of February 28, 2022).

Any covenant waiver may lead to increased costs, increased interest rates, additional restrictive covenants and other available lender protections that would be applicable. There can be no assurance that we would be able to obtain additional waivers in a timely manner, or on acceptable terms at all. If we were not able to obtain additional waivers or repay the debt facilities, this would lead to an event of default and potential acceleration of amounts due under all of our outstanding debt and derivative contract payables. As a result, the failure to obtain the additional waivers would have a material adverse effect on us.

Since March 2020, Moody’s and S&P Global have downgraded our credit ratings to be below investment grade. Our current short-term commercial paper credit rating prevents us from issuing additional commercial paper.