Carnival Corporation to consolidate US staff in new global HQ

Carnival Corporation is to consolidate US shoreside staff into a single new location in Miami from 2028.

The world’s largest cruise company has purchased a property south of Miami international airport. Details of the transaction were not disclosed. 

The corporation plans to build a “next-generation multi-building campus” initially designed to house more than 2,000 staff. 

The new global headquarters will become its main North America office and unite most of its North America shoreside workers from across the corporation and its cruise line operating units including Carnival Cruise Line, Princess Cruises, Holland America Line, Seabourn, Cunard and Costa Cruises.

The group’s US cruise brands have multiple locations, including Holland America Line in Seattle and Princess Cruises in Los Angeles.

The plans were disclosed after Carnival Cruise Line announced the closure of its UK office.

A statement said: “In addition to the existing team members working in the company’s existing Miami-Dade office, the combined North America operations will bring together team members previously dispersed throughout other locations and regions adding hundreds of additional high-paying jobs to Miami-Dade County.”

The “bespoke campus” will be customised to meet the cross-functional needs of Carnival Corporation and its cruise line operating units.

The new location will initially include 600,000–700,000 square feet of workspace across the headquarters building and an onboard entertainment training and rehearsal facility. 

“Buildings will be designed to feature a variety of versatile work areas, including open collaboration zones, individual workplaces, and ample meeting rooms, along with a flexible technological infrastructure designed to keep up with new and emerging technologies and evolving ways of working,” the company said. 

“Additional information about the new headquarters will be announced as design and development gets underway.”

Chief executive Josh Weinstein said: “Co-locating our North America shoreside team members on a shared campus - designed from the ground up to support how we work and what we do - will foster even greater knowledge sharing, innovation, efficiency and career growth. 

“We look forward to further leveraging our scale by bringing our teams closer together to supercharge collaboration and support our delivery of unforgettable happiness to our over 13 million guests by providing extraordinary cruise vacations, while honouring the integrity of every ocean we sail, place we visit and life we touch.

“As the world’s largest cruise company, there is no better place for us to be based than Miami - the cruise capital of the world. Plus, with decades of history here, this move enables us to seamlessly build on our success here to continue growing our global operations and deepening our community ties.”