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Quick Facts
- Established in 1972 with the formation of Carnival Cruise Line, Carnival Corporation & plc is the world’s largest cruise company with a portfolio of world-class cruise lines.
- Our mission is to deliver unforgettable happiness to our guests by providing extraordinary cruise vacations, while honoring the integrity of every ocean we sail, place we visit and life we touch.
- Together, the company’s cruise lines comprise a fleet of over 90 ships making 22,000 calls in over 800 ports and destinations worldwide.
- Carnival Corporation & plc’s workforce of over 160,000 team members representing approximately 150 countries served more than 12 million guests in 2023.
- The company and its cruise lines account for nearly half of the overall global cruise market.
- There are over 300,000 guests and crew sailing aboard the fleet at any given time.
- Roughly half of the U.S. population within a day’s drive of embarking a Carnival Corporation ship.
- The company operates a portfolio of eight corporate-owned destinations globally designed exclusively for Carnival Corporation guests, including Celebration Key opening in summer 2025, as well as its Tour Operations Division in the Alaska & Yukon Territories.
- Headquartered in Miami, Carnival Corporation & plc is the only company in the world listed on both S&P 500 index in the U.S. and FTSE 250 index in the UK.
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