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Reported fleet size
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No published figure available
Container capacity
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Not a ranked container line
Gross tonnage on record
85,920
Summed over 1 ships reporting tonnage
In brief
Carnival Corporation Ltd. is a Bermuda-domiciled American cruise line operator that owns more than 90 vessels across eight brands. Carnival is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and is a component of the S&P 500 index. From 2003 to May 7, 2026, Carnival was a dual-listed company, consisting of U.S.-based and British corporations collectively known as Carnival Corporation & plc.
Carnival Corporation's operational headquarters are in Doral, Florida. Carnival also has significant UK operations, with regional headquarters in Southampton, England.
Origin
Carnival Corporation was founded in 1972 by one named founder on record. Portraits are shown only where a freely licensed photograph exists and its photographer is known.
Founder
Ted Arison
1924–1999
Israeli billionaire businessman and philanthropist (1924-1999)
Photo: מיכל גורביץ · CC BY-SA 4.0 · file
People
Officers and directors as recorded in open reference data. This reflects the most recent statement in the source, not a filing date — check the company's own disclosures before relying on it.
Corporate profile
Corporate structure
Fleet on record
Composition of the 1 vessels this registry attributes to Carnival Corporation. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.
Delivery history
Ships delivered in each of the last 10 years, counted from the recorded build year of vessels attributed to this company, with the running total of its fleet on record. No deliveries fall inside this window — this company’s vessels on record were all built earlier.
| Year | Deliveries | Ships delivered | Gross tonnage added | Fleet on record |
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| 2017 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2018 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2019 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2020 |
Vessel records
| Ship | IMO | Type | Flag | Built | Gross tonnage | Deadweight | Length | Builder |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9188647 | Cruise ship | Malta | 2001 | 85,920 | — | 293.5 m | Kvaerner Masa-Yards |
Ships in registry counts individual vessel records attributed to the company here. is the company’s published total. They measure different things and are shown separately on purpose.
In context
Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
With 1 vessels attributed to it here, Carnival Corporation is the 492nd largest of the 965 operators in this directory that hold at least one ship on record, against a median of 2 across that group. That is a count of individually identified hulls, not the company’s published fleet size — the two are different measurements and both are shown above where available.
United States is the country of registration for 144 commercial operators in this directory, among which Carnival Corporation ranks 55th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 435 vessels here. 1 of them carry a published container-capacity ranking. See every operator registered in United States.
Founded in 1972, Carnival Corporation is 54 years old. This directory holds 117 operators founded within five years either side of that date, whose median fleet on record is 1 ships. The median founding year across all commercial operators here is 1966, and the oldest on record dates to 1514.
Same country
Provenance
Company and vessel recordsWikidata item Q1044059, released under CC0. Counted figures on this page are counts over those records.
Written summaryQuoted from Carnival Corporation on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Published fleet figuresNo published fleet figure is available for this company.
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| 2021 | 0 | — | 1 |
| 2022 | 0 | — | 1 |
| 2023 | 0 | — | 1 |
| 2024 | 0 | — | 1 |
| 2025 | 0 | — | 1 |
| 2026 | 0 | — | 1 |
