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NCL AMERICA NAMES WINNING ARTISTS IN ALOHA SHIRT DESIGN COMPETITION

Artists’ designs to be used for Pride of America and Pride of Aloha
crew uniforms

Miami, Nov. 30, 2003
Today, at a press conference aboard Norwegian Star in Honolulu, NCL
America announced two winners for its “Aloha” shirt design
competition, launched in September. The designs of Deidre Britt and
LeRoy Na’ahulelua Makekau Jr. both of Oahu were selected from over a
dozen entries from University of Hawai’i art students. NCL America
challenged the students to create distinctive design patterns for
uniform shirts to be worn by crewmembers aboard NCL America’s Pride of
America and Pride of Aloha, which will debut in Hawai’i in July and
October of 2004, respectively.

"We are extremely proud of these wonderfully creative designs, which
reflect Hawai’i’s natural beauty and attributes,” said Robert
Kritzman, executive vice president and managing director for NCL
America. “We are equally pleased that both designs were created by
local artists, who together represent a small slice of the artistic
talent in the Aloha state.”

The winning artists each received an award of $2,000 and a cruise for
two aboard either the 2,146-passenger Pride of America or
2,002-passenger Pride of Aloha.

Britt, a resident of Hawai’i for more than 11 years, is a current
graduate student at the University of Hawai’i’s Masters of Fine Arts
degree program and co-owner of three Kona art galleries. Makekau, a
native of Hawai’i, has a Bachelor’s Degree of Fine Arts from the
University of Hawai’i. Like Britt, he is a graduate student at the
school’s Masters of Fine Arts program. Makekau has also spent several
years as a sportswear designer in Oahu.

NCL America selected the winning designs on the basis of their
creative representations of the Hawai’i Islands and NCL’s Freestyle
Cruising concept.

Miami-based Norwegian Cruise Line is an industry innovator. The NCL
America brand, under which the company’s U.S.-flagged ships will
operate, is currently building Pride of America, which begins year
round inter-island Hawaii cruises on July 4, 2004. Pride of Aloha, the
re-flagged Norwegian Sky, will begin sailing year round inter-island
cruises in October of 2004. NCL will also deploy two foreign flagged
ships offering Hawai’i/Fanning Island itineraries – Norwegian Wind
sailing year round and Norwegian Star sailing through April 2004.

For further information on NCL or NCL America, please contact a travel
agent.