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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
3,045,615
Summed over 29 ships reporting tonnage
In brief
Carnival Cruise Line is an international cruise line with headquarters in Doral, Florida. The company is a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation & plc. Its logo is a funnel shaped like a whale's tail, with a red, white, and blue color scheme. This trademark funnel design is built onto the line's ships. Carnival is ranked first on the list of largest cruise lines based on passengers carried annually.
As of March 2025, Carnival Cruise Line operates a fleet of 29 ships with five new ships set to join between 2027 and 2033.
Origin
Carnival Cruise Line was founded in 1972 in Miami 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
Corporate profile
Corporate structure
Parent company
Carnival Corporation
Services and products
Fleet on record
Composition of the 33 vessels this registry attributes to Carnival Cruise Line. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.
By shipbuilder
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. 8 deliveries fall inside this window.
| Year | Deliveries | Ships delivered | Gross tonnage added | Fleet on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 0 | — | 25 | |
| 2018 | 1 | 133,500 | 26 | |
| 2019 | 2 | 269,000 | 28 | |
| 2020 | 2 | 135,156 | 30 | |
| 2021 | 0 | — | 30 | |
| 2022 | 1 | — | 31 | |
| 2023 | 1 | — | 32 | |
| 2024 | 1 | — | 33 | |
| 2025 | 0 | — | 33 | |
| 2026 | 0 | — | 33 |
Vessel records
| Ship | IMO | Type | Flag | Built | Gross tonnage | Deadweight | Length | Builder |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9801689 | Passenger vessel | The Bahamas | 2019 | 135,500 | — | 323.0 m | Fincantieri | |
| 9801691 | Cruise ship | Italy | 2020 | 135,156 | — | 321.0 m | Fincantieri | |
| 9767091 | Cruise ship | Panama | 2018 | 133,500 | 12,164 | 321.5 m | Fincantieri | |
| 9802384 | Cruise ship | — | 2019 | 133,500 | — | 321.6 m | Fincantieri | |
| 9692569 | Cruise ship | Panama | 2016 | 133,500 | — | 322.0 m | Fincantieri | |
| 9555723 | Cruise ship | Panama | 2012 | 130,000 | 10,250 | 305.6 m | Fincantieri | |
| 9378474 | Cruise ship | Panama | 2009 | 130,000 | 13,815 | 306.0 m | Fincantieri | |
| 9378486 | Cruise ship | Panama | 2011 | 130,000 | 13,073 | 306.0 m | Fincantieri | |
| 9333175 | Cruise ship | Bermuda | 2008 | 116,017 | 8,044 | 288.0 m | Fincantieri | |
| 9228186 | Cruise ship | United Kingdom | 2004 | 115,875 | — | 290.0 m | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries | |
| 9293399 | Cruise ship | Bermuda | 2006 | 113,561 | — | 289.9 m | Fincantieri | |
| 9333163 | Cruise ship | Panama | 2008 | 113,300 | 11,843 | 290.2 m | Fincantieri | |
| 9215490 | Cruise ship | Bermuda | 2004 | 112,894 | 8,418 | 289.6 m | Fincantieri | |
| 9198355 | Cruise ship | Panama | 2002 | 110,000 | — | 290.5 m | Fincantieri | |
| 9333149 | Cruise ship | Panama | 2007 | 110,000 | — | 290.2 m | Fincantieri | |
| 9198367 | Cruise ship | Panama | 2003 | 110,000 | — | 290.2 m | Fincantieri | |
| 9278181 | Cruise ship | Panama | 2005 | 110,000 | — | 290.2 m | Fincantieri | |
| 9236389 | Cruise ship | Panama | 2004 | 110,000 | — | 290.2 m | Fincantieri | |
| 9070058 | Cruise ship | The Bahamas | 1996 | 102,853 | — | 272.2 m | Fincantieri | |
| 9172648 | Cruise ship | Panama | 2000 | 101,509 | — | 272.8 m | Fincantieri | |
| 9138850 | Cruise ship | The Bahamas | 1999 | 101,509 | 10,984 | 272.8 m | Fincantieri | |
| 9237357 | Cruise ship | Panama | 2004 | 88,500 | — | 293.5 m | Kvaerner Masa-Yards | |
| 9224726 | Cruise ship | Malta | 2002 | 85,942 | 7,089 | 292.5 m | Kvaerner Masa-Yards | |
| 9223954 | Cruise ship | Panama | 2001 | 85,920 | — | 293.5 m | Kvaerner Masa-Yards | |
| 9118721 | Cruise ship | Panama | 1998 | 71,909 | — | 260.6 m | Kvaerner Masa-Yards | |
| 9120877 | Cruise ship | Panama | 1998 | 70,367 | — | 260.6 m | Kvaerner Masa-Yards | |
| 8711356 | Cruise ship | The Bahamas | 1993 | 70,367 | 7,180 | 261.0 m | Kvaerner Masa-Yards | |
| 8314122 | Cruise ship | Malta | 1986 | 47,262 | 6,405 | 224.3 m | Kockums | |
| 7915096 | Cruise ship | — | 1981 | 36,674 | — | 204.8 m | Aalborg Shipyard | |
| 9837456 | Cruise ship | Panama | 2022 | — | — | 344.5 m | Meyer Turku | |
| 9851737 | Cruise ship | — | 2023 | — | — | 345320.1 m | Meyer Werft | |
| 9837444 | Cruise ship | — | 2020 | — | — | — | Meyer Turku | |
| 9863118 | Cruise ship | — | 2024 | — | — | 345.0 m | Fincantieri |
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
Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
With 33 vessels attributed to it here, Carnival Cruise Line is the 26th 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 Cruise Line ranks 3rd 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 Cruise Line 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.
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Provenance
Company and vessel recordsWikidata item Q656554, released under CC0. Counted figures on this page are counts over those records.
Written summaryQuoted from Carnival Cruise Line on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Published fleet figuresNo published fleet figure is available for this company.
