From orlandosentinel.com:
No part of Walt Disney Co.’s vast corporate empire has been buffeted more by record oil prices than the 10-year-old Disney Cruise Line.
Although Disney has never broken out separate financial results for its cruise line, which has its headquarters in Celebration, company executives recently disclosed to investors that they expect its fuel bill will grow by $20 million this year.
It is a substantial increase for a cruise line of just two ships. And it has Disney making adjustments.
Those adjustments include possible changes to the company’s cruise itineraries. Disney executives are studying their existing schedules in hopes of finding more efficient sailing routes between ports that stretch from St. Maarten in the eastern Caribbean to Cozumel just off Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula.
“All the ports would remain the same. We’re just looking at whether it would make sense to rearrange the order,” said Disney Cruise Line spokeswoman Christi Erwin Donnan.
