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Company description
CARNIVAL UK LTD. is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 19 July 2000; registered for 26 years; registered office reported in SOUTHAMPTON, HAMPSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM. Its primary declared activity is 50200 · Sea and coastal freight water transport, with 1 additional SIC activity reported.
This description is assembled from public data, is not a reliability assessment, and should be checked against the cited sources before a legally significant decision.
Web facts are never added from a name match alone. Internet enrichment requires the exact Companies House ID in Wikidata, and ambiguous results are excluded.
01 Company overview
Identity and registration
- Official name
- CARNIVAL UK LTD.
- Company number
- 04039524
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- GROUP
- Mortgage charges
- 77 total · 24 outstanding · 53 satisfied
- Limited partnership members
- 0 general · 0 limited
A registered office is not necessarily a trading location. The address is reproduced from the Companies House bulk record and should be interpreted in that legal context.
02 Filing dates
Accounts and statements
Last accounts made up to
30 November 2025Next accounts due
31 August 2027Last statement made up to
17 October 2025Next statement due
31 October 2026BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 84.3%
- Mean bonus gap
- 67.3%
- Women receiving bonus
- 94.6%
- Men receiving bonus
- 94.3%
- Women in top quartile
- 43.0%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 56.0%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 74.0%
- Women in lower quartile
- 80.0%
Earlier reporting years (8)
- 1000 to 499936.9% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499938.0% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499937.3% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499938.4% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499935.5% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499937.0% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499940.5% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499938.4% median hourly gap
Positive gaps mean men were paid more; negative gaps mean women were paid more. These figures are employer-reported and describe the workforce distribution, not equal pay for the same job. The company link uses the exact Companies House number supplied by the service.
04 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 1 December 2025 – 31 May 2026
- Filed
- 29 June 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 60 days
- Longest standard term
- Not supplied
- E-invoicing offered
- Yes
- Supply-chain finance
- Not offered
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- No qualifying construction contracts
Complete reported payment fields
- Policy regime
- Regime-3
- Financial period started
- 1 December 2025
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £470,000,000
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £180,000,000
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £32,000,000
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £102,000,000
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 28.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 4.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 90 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
Net 60
- Dispute resolution process
Any payment disputes shall be resolved between the Supplier and Business Contact in accordance with the relevant contract terms, in conjunction with the Finance team if appropriate. Any dispute that cannot be resolved between the Supplier and the Business Contact may be referred to the Company's Legal Department.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 23.0 average days to pay16.0% outside terms
- 23.0 average days to pay19.0% outside terms
- 25.0 average days to pay16.0% outside terms
- 23.0 average days to pay19.0% outside terms
- 24.0 average days to pay20.0% outside terms
- 37.0 average days to pay27.0% outside terms
- 27.0 average days to pay22.0% outside terms
- 23.0 average days to pay21.0% outside terms
- 31.0 average days to pay24.0% outside terms
- 16.0 average days to pay17.0% outside terms
- 19.0 average days to pay35.0% outside terms
This is a company-submitted statutory disclosure, not a credit rating. BritDB preserves the reporting period and links the report only through the Companies House number supplied by the official service. Percentages describe payments made during that period and may change in later reports.
05 Global legal identity
Legal Entity Identifier
CARNIVAL UK LTD.
LEI 4DR1VPDQMHD3N3QW8W95 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- H0PO
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- 18 July 2000
- Initial LEI registration
- 8 October 2012
- LEI last updated
- 19 June 2026
- Next renewal
- 17 July 2027
- Managing LOU
- 213800WAVVOPS85N2205
- Other legal names
- CARNIVAL LTD.; CARNIVAL PLC
- Legal address
- CARNIVAL HOUSE, 100 HARBOUR PARADE HAMPSHIRE, SOUTHAMPTON, GB-STH, SO15 1ST, GB
- Headquarters address
- CARNIVAL HOUSE, 100 HARBOUR PARADE, SOUTHAMPTON, GB-STH, SO15 1ST, GB
GLEIF Level 2 relationships
IS DIRECTLY CONSOLIDATED BY
From LEI 4DR1VPDQMHD3N3QW8W95 to LEI F1OF2ZSX47CR0BCWA982
- Initial registration
- 8 October 2012
- Last updated
- 19 June 2026
- Next renewal
- 17 July 2027
- Validation sources
- FULLY_CORROBORATED
- Validation documents
- ACCOUNTS_FILING
- Relationship periods
- Start: 2024-12-01T00:00:00Z; End: 2025-11-30T00:00:00Z; Type: ACCOUNTING_PERIOD; Start: 2012-10-08T00:00:00Z; Type: RELATIONSHIP_PERIOD
- Qualifiers
- Dimension: ACCOUNTING_STANDARD; Category: OTHER_ACCOUNTING_STANDARD
- Validation reference
- https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/04039524/filing-history/MzUwOTI5OTI5MGFkaXF6a2N4/document?format=pdf&download=0
IS ULTIMATELY CONSOLIDATED BY
From LEI 4DR1VPDQMHD3N3QW8W95 to LEI F1OF2ZSX47CR0BCWA982
- Initial registration
- 8 October 2012
- Last updated
- 19 June 2026
- Next renewal
- 17 July 2027
- Validation sources
- FULLY_CORROBORATED
- Validation documents
- ACCOUNTS_FILING
- Relationship periods
- Start: 2024-12-01T00:00:00Z; End: 2025-11-30T00:00:00Z; Type: ACCOUNTING_PERIOD; Start: 2012-10-08T00:00:00Z; Type: RELATIONSHIP_PERIOD
- Qualifiers
- Dimension: ACCOUNTING_STANDARD; Category: OTHER_ACCOUNTING_STANDARD
- Validation reference
- https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/04039524/filing-history/MzUwOTI5OTI5MGFkaXF6a2N4/document?format=pdf&download=0
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06 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- CARNIVAL UK LTD.
- Group submission
- No
- Statement period
- 1 December 2024 – 30 November 2025
- Approved
- 8 July 2026
- Sectors
- Consumer services, including accommodation, hospitality, tourism and leisure Transportation, logistics, and storage
Organisation structure
Covered in the statement
Policies
Covered in the statement
Risk assessment
Covered in the statement
Due diligence
Covered in the statement
Training
Covered in the statement
Goals and KPIs
Covered in the statement
Full statement information supplied to the registry
- Reported turnover band
- Over £500 million
- Years producing statements
- More than 5 years
- ILO indicators included
- Not answered
- Registry record updated
- 3 August 2026
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07 Ownership and control
People with significant control
No PSC entry for this company was present in the imported snapshot.
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08 Charity register
Charity Commission links
No exact company-number link in this snapshot
The Charity Commission extract did not explicitly associate this Companies House number with a charity. BritDB does not use a name-only match to fill the gap.
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09 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
The CCNI source number did not resolve uniquely to this Companies House record. BritDB did not use a name or address match.
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10 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
The imported UK Sanctions List did not supply this Companies House number as a UK-linked business identifier. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
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11 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
No exact GB-COH link in this snapshot
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12 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
No exact company-number registration linked
The licensed Environment Agency subset did not contain this exact Companies House number. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
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13 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
Activities of head offices
14 Connected public record
Checks beyond the company register
Charity Commission
0 exact company-number links.
Northern Ireland charities
0 unambiguous company-number links.
Public contracts
0 procurement processes linked by exact GB-COH identifier.
Waste register
0 exact company-number registrations.
Corporate notices
The Gazette is not yet connected.
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link in this report.
A checked source with no exact link is not a clean bill of health. Unchecked sources remain unknown, while sanctions may also apply through ownership or control of a listed person or entity.
15 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Company name
Previous name: CARNIVAL LTD.
- Company name
Previous name: CARNIVAL PLC
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
16 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Annual employer reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Statutory supplier-payment reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Global legal identities linked through Companies House registration authority RA000585.
Annual statement summaries linked by exact source company number.
Current and ceased significant-control records joined by exact company number.
Daily England and Wales extract matched only by the official company registration number.
Daily CCNI export with company links only where the source number resolves unambiguously.
Complete FCDO list checked by exact UK-linked business registration number.
Procurement parties checked only through exact GB-COH identifiers.
Licensed subset linked only by exact Companies House number.
Financial regulation and licences.
Companies House, Charity Commission, OSCR and UK Sanctions List information is public-register data. BritDB reproduces and organises it with source-specific limits; official external links are kept on the dedicated source pages.