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cruise line

Royal Caribbean Group

Headquarters: Miami
Founded: 1997
Employees: 108

Official website

Photo: Coolcaesar at en.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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

90,090

Summed over 1 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What Royal Caribbean Group is

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Royal Caribbean Group, formerly known as Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd., is a cruise holding company headquartered in Miami, Florida, United States and incorporated in Liberia. It is the world's second-largest cruise line operator, after Carnival Corporation & plc. As of September 2025, Royal Caribbean Group fully owns three cruise lines: Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity Cruises, and Silversea Cruises. It also holds a 50% stake in TUI Cruises, which operates Mein Schiff and Hapag-Lloyd Cruises, with the Group's global fleet consisting of 71 ships.

Origin

Who founded it

Royal Caribbean Group was founded in 1997 by one named founder on record. Portraits are shown only where a freely licensed photograph exists and its photographer is known.

Founder

Arne Wilhelmsen

1929–2020

Norwegian businessman (1929-2020)

Photo: Pekka Haraste / Helsingin Sanomat · Public domain · file

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: Royal Caribbean Group
Industry: cruise line
Legal form: joint-stock company
Country of registration: United States
Headquarters: Miami
Formed in: —
Founded: 1997
Dissolved: —
Employees: 108
Listed on: New York Stock Exchange
Ticker: —
ISIN: LR0008862868
Legal Entity Identifier: K2NEH8QNVW44JIWK7Z55
Head office coordinates: 25.7742, -80.1936

Ships on record here: 1
Vessel types operated: 1
Flag states used: 1
Average vessel age: 24.0 years
Oldest vessel on record: 2002
Newest vessel on record: 2002
Largest vessel by tonnage: 90,090
Average tonnage: 90,090
Market share: —
Parent company: —
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 1 vessels this registry attributes to Royal Caribbean Group. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

Cruise ship1

By flag state

The Bahamas1

By shipbuilder

Meyer Werft1

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
MS Brilliance of the Seas	9195200	Cruise ship	The Bahamas	2002	90,090	10,759	293.9 m	Meyer Werft

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 Royal Caribbean Group 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, Royal Caribbean Group 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 Royal Caribbean Group 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 1997, Royal Caribbean Group is 29 years old. This directory holds 150 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.