Corporate Vision
As the global leader in the cruise industry, we will lead the way in innovative and sustainable cruising to deliver memorable vacations and build borderless connections.
Corporate Mission & Purpose
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.
Corporate Shipbuilding Purpose
Carnival Corporate Shipbuilding manages the new ship acquisition process, partnering with our brands to design, build, deliver and maintain innovative and sustainable happiness at sea.
Culture Essentials
Our Culture Essentials are a clear set of behaviours that in time, will be ‘just how we do things around here’, creating a culture and team that we are all proud to be part of.
There are six Culture Essentials and these are shared across the whole Corporation: Speak Up, Respect & Protect, Improve, Communicate, Listen & Learn and Empower.
Please click on the dropdown arrows to find out what each Culture Essential means for Corporate Shipbuilding:
Speak Up – See something, do something
- Continuously ask questions, of yourself and your colleagues, even in situations that are familiar to you.
- Don’t become comfortable because you have done it before.
- Not every conversation is easy, the difficult ones can often be the most rewarding and beneficial.
- Support your point of view with facts, knowledge and expertise.
- Share our knowledge and expertise across both Corporate Shipbuilding and the Corporation.
- Talk with authority, supported by knowledge and expertise in everything shipbuilding.
- Promote our centre of excellence to support how we are perceived by everyone in the Corporation.
- Speak up so we can take action, without fear of retaliation.
- Continue to encourage sharing of feedback (direct or anonymous).
Respect & Protect – Our people, the planet, the law and our Company
- Be a role model respecting and taking care of our immediate environments.
- Promote and support Corporation wide programmes.
- Promote and support local initiatives.
- Comply with the Corporation policies, rules and laws in all aspects of our work.
- No blame culture, creating a level of comfort to be honest and transparent, good or bad.
- Ensure everyone has a voice and a problem shared is a problem halved providing an opportunity for solution and growth.
- Encourage collaboration and sharing our learnings to help each other develop and succeed.
- Including those within the Corporation as well as suppliers and shipbuilders
- Listen, communicate and work collaboratively.
- Promote continuous improvement to develop relationships, ways of working, enhancing outputs and achievements.
Improve – Focus on compliance and our performance as a team
- Both within your teams, across Corporate Shipbuilding and the Corporation.
- Take the time to understand the strengths and weaknesses of your colleagues and how you can support each other to achieve your common goal (whatever that might be).
- Take the time to stop, reflect and see what went well and/or could be improved.
- Ensure we embrace lessons learned.
- Embrace change and strive for improvement.
- Ensure safety, the environment and compliance are at the forefront of everything we do
- We draw on our differences, what we’ve experienced and how we think to improve what we do.
- To become a Centre of Excellence we believe in including everyone.
Communicate – Talk openly about our values and priorities and act as we expect others to
• Both within our Corporate Shipbuilding community, across the Corporation and with our
external stakeholders.
• Take the time to not only speak but listen too
• Everyone’s opinion matters
- Understand the right time for positive and more challenging messages.
- Develop and improve working relationships at all levels across the Corporation.
- Consider the relevance and frequency of communication.
- Applies to both internal and external.
- This doesn’t have to always be a formal meeting.
- Consider how your team works together and as individuals.
Listen & Learn – Listen to each other, be accountable for our actions and learn from our mistakes
- Listen more and understand before speaking.
- Support an environment, where issues are shared not concealed, enabling collaborative problem solving.
- Ensure all voices are heard, recognising where certain individuals may need more encouragement.
• Allow your colleagues to try something new without the fear of retaliation for making a mistake.
• Provide constructive criticism when appropriate to enable your colleagues to learn from experience
and improve for the future.
- Support and demonstrate the behaviours you expect of your colleagues.
- Communicate with our stakeholders in the right way at the right level.
- Work collaboratively, driving this culture through Corporate Shipbuilding.
- Recognise talent; encourage development and growth of yourself and your colleagues
- Encourage all colleagues to take part in activities to enhance/ support social conscience.
- Embrace and implement lessons learned within our environments.
Empower – Give our teams what they need to succeed
- Allow your colleagues the opportunity to grow and develop by letting them take on new tasks / activities that support their development.
- Allow people the time and space to find solutions to issues.
- Celebrate diversity and different ways of working.
- Support them with their thinking and provide direction if/when needed.
- Give people the confidence to speak up.
You can also click here and watch a video explaining the Culture Essentials or click here and download a PDF version.
If you need some further help on what good looks like when it comes to our Culture Essentials, we’ve created a handy guide with some examples, click here to read it.
Our Code of Business Conduct & Ethics
Our Code of Business Conduct & Ethics sets out expectations that we all must meet, it helps us make ethical decisions and shows us how to identify potential misconduct, ask questions or raise concerns.
It is meant to be a practical resource for helping us to make good, honest and fair decisions, while operating in compliance with all laws and our policies. Please take the time to read and ensure you follow our Code and get to know all of the policies you see referenced.
Please click here to access the full document.
