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Carnival Corporation

Headquarters: London
Founded: 1972
Employees: —

Official website

Photo: Robin Webster · CC BY-SA 2.0 · file

Ships in this registry

Counted from individual vessel records · Wikidata

Reported fleet size

—

No published figure available

Container capacity

—

Not a ranked container line

Gross tonnage on record

85,920

Summed over 1 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What Carnival Corporation is

Full article ↗

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

Who founded it

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

Leadership on record

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.

Chief executive

Arnold W. Donald

1955

President & CEO, Carnival Corporation

Photo: World Travel & Tourism Council · CC BY 2.0 · file

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: —
Industry: —
Legal form: —
Country of registration: United States
Headquarters: London
Formed in: —
Founded: 1972
Dissolved: —
Employees: —
Listed on: London Stock Exchange
Ticker: —
ISIN: GB0031215220
Legal Entity Identifier: F1OF2ZSX47CR0BCWA982
Head office coordinates: 50.9067, -1.4044

Ships on record here: 1
Vessel types operated: 1
Flag states used: 1
Average vessel age: 25.0 years
Oldest vessel on record: 2001
Newest vessel on record: 2001
Largest vessel by tonnage: 85,920
Average tonnage: 85,920
Market share: —
Parent company: —
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata

Fleet on record

What this company sails

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.

By vessel type

Cruise ship1

By flag state

Malta1

By shipbuilder

Kvaerner Masa-Yards1

Delivery history

10-year fleet record

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	Gross tonnage added	Fleet on record
2017	—	1
2018	—	1
2019	—	1
2020	—	1
2021	—	1
2022	—	1
2023	—	1
2024	—	1
2025	—	1
2026	—	1

Vessel records

Ships on record

1 vessels

Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
Carnival Spirit	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. Reported fleet is the company’s published total. They measure different things and are shown separately on purpose.

In context

How Carnival Corporation compares

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.