Property and Equipment

12 Months Ended

Nov. 30, 2011

NOTE 4 – Property and Equipment

Property and equipment consisted of the following (in millions):


	November 30,
	2011			2010
Ships, including ship improvements	$	39,764		$	37,348
Ships under construction		526			696

		40,290			38,044
Land, buildings and improvements, including leasehold improvements and port facilities		898			858
Computer hardware and software, transportation equipment and other		1,016			934

Total property and equipment		42,204			39,836
Less accumulated depreciation and amortization		(10,150	)		(8,869	)

	$	32,054	(a)	$	30,967	(a)

(a)

At November 30, 2011 and 2010, the net carrying values of ships and ships under construction for our North America, EAA, Cruise Support and Tour and Other segments were $17.9 billion, $12.8 billion, $0.2 billion and $0.1 billion and $17.5 billion, $12.1 billion, $0.2 billion and $0.2 billion, respectively.

Ships under construction include progress payments for the construction of new ships, as well as design and engineering fees, capitalized interest, construction oversight costs and various owner supplied items. Capitalized interest, substantially all on our ships under construction, amounted to $21 million, $26 million and $37 million in fiscal 2011, 2010 and 2009, respectively.

Repairs and maintenance expenses, including minor improvement costs and dry-dock expenses, were $830 million, $797 million and $749 million in fiscal 2011, 2010 and 2009, respectively, and are substantially all included in other ship operating expenses.

In 2010, we recognized a $44 million gain on the sale of P&O Cruises (UK)’s Artemis as a reduction of other ship operating expenses. We operated Artemis under a bareboat charter agreement until April 2011.

During fiscal 2011, we reviewed certain of our ships for impairment since there were indicators of impairment. As a result of these reviews, in August 2011 we recorded $28 million of estimated impairment charges in other ship operating expenses as a result of the possible sales of the 754-passenger capacity Costa Marina, which was sold in November 2011, and the 1,460-passenger capacity Pacific Sun, which was sold in December 2011.

See Note 15 for a discussion of the January 2012 Costa Concordia incident.

- Definition

The entire disclosure for long-lived, physical assets that are used in the normal conduct of business to produce goods and services and not intended for resale. Examples include land, buildings, machinery and equipment, and other types of furniture and equipment including, but not limited to, office equipment, furniture and fixtures, and computer equipment and software. This disclosure may include property plant and equipment accounting policies and methodology, a schedule of property, plant and equipment gross, additions, deletions, transfers and other changes, depreciation, depletion and amortization expense, net, accumulated depreciation, depletion and amortization expense and useful lives, income statement disclosures, assets held for sale and public utility disclosures.

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