Cruise Ship Jobs - Employment Index for Leisure Shipping

Along with some featured cruise ship employers, you'll find a comprehensive listing of the 'Jobs' pages of every major cruise company on the planet.

The cruise industry is one of the few sectors which has been growing non-stop inspite of the multiple recessions in the last decade.

If you need a well paid job, are willing to work hard for it, and don't mind being at sea and away from home for long stretches, then there are exciting new worlds awaiting you on the other side of the oceans.

Doral, Florida based Carnival Corp. is the world's biggest cruise company, with ten cruise ship brands including the flagship brand Carnival Cruise Lines.

Other cruise brands controlled by Carnival:-

North America - Holland America, Princess Cruises and Seabourn;
UK - P&O Cruises, Cunard Line and Ocean Village;
Germany - AIDA;
Southern Europe - Costa Cruises;
Spain - Iberocruceros;
Australia - P&O Cruises

Carnival has over 80,000 employees, out of which 65,000 work aboard Carnival ships.

To browse current job openings and apply individually to each cruise brand, click here.

 Miami, Florida based Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. is the world's second largest cruise company, after Carnival.

RCI employs over 40,000 people on its ships under the Royal Caribbean International and Celebrity Cruises brands.

They also own the world's biggest ships - The Oasis of the Seas and Allure of the Seas. Each of these ships is 5 times as big as the Titanic.

Read more about career opportunities with Royal Caribbean.

Miami, Florida based NCL Corporation Ltd. is the parent of the Norwegian Cruise Line.

NCL offers you the following choices:-
1. Work in their corporate HQ in Miami.
2. Shipboard employment on board Norwegian's fleet of ships.
3. Shipboard employment with NCL America - in which case you'll based in warm and sunny Hawaii.

For more detals, visit NCL's employment page.

American Canadian Caribbean Line
American Cruise Lines
American Safari Cruises
Captain Cook Cruises
Crystal Cruises
Cruise West
Disney Cruise Line
Fred Olsen Cruise Lines
Lindblad Expeditions
MSC Cruises
North Star Cruises
Oceania Cruises
Orient Lines
Paul Gauguin Cruises
Regent Seven Seas Cruises
Star Cruises
TUI Cruises

Oh, and I searched for and put together this list, so you won't find it anywhere else on the net.

 Photo credits:- Top - jimg944; Carnival hq - Coolcaesar; Oasis of the Seas - Nick Hobgood; Norwegian courtesy NCL; Disney Liner - lemoncat1