<SEC-DOCUMENT>0000950170-25-041715.txt : 20250318
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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0000950170-25-041715
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	4
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		2
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20250315
FILED AS OF DATE:		20250318
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20250318

REPORTING-OWNER:	

	OWNER DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			Birns Ira M
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001396673
		ORGANIZATION NAME:           	

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		4
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-09533
		FILM NUMBER:		25750640

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		C/O WORLD FUEL SERVICES CORPORATION
		STREET 2:		9800 NW 41ST STREET, SUITE 400
		CITY:			MIAMI
		STATE:			FL
		ZIP:			33178

ISSUER:		

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			WORLD KINECT CORP
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000789460
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	WHOLESALE-PETROLEUM & PETROLEUM PRODUCTS (NO BULK STATIONS) [5172]
		ORGANIZATION NAME:           	07 Trade & Services
		IRS NUMBER:				592459427
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			FL
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		9800 N.W. 41ST STREET
		CITY:			MIAMI
		STATE:			FL
		ZIP:			33178
		BUSINESS PHONE:		305-428-8000

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		9800 N.W. 41ST STREET
		CITY:			MIAMI
		STATE:			FL
		ZIP:			33178

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	WORLD FUEL SERVICES CORP
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19951031

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	INTERNATIONAL RECOVERY CORP
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19920703
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        <footnote id="F1">Represents shares that were acquired upon the satisfaction of performance criteria underlying an award of performance-based restricted stock units (&quot;PSUs&quot;) granted to the Reporting Person on March 15, 2022.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F2">The issuer withheld the reported shares to cover the reporting person's tax liability associated with these PSUs.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F3">The price shown is the closing price of the issuer's common stock on the NYSE on March 14, 2025.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F4">7,434 restricted stock units held by the reporting person vested and settled on March 15, 2025. The issuer withheld the reported shares to cover the reporting person's tax liability associated with these restricted stock units.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F5">8,143 restricted stock units held by the reporting person vested and settled on March 15, 2025. The issuer withheld the reported shares to cover the reporting person's tax liability associated with these restricted stock units.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F6">8,622 restricted stock units held by the reporting person vested and settled on March 15, 2025. The issuer withheld the reported shares to cover the reporting person's tax liability associated with these restricted stock units.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F7">These restricted stock units will vest in three equal installments beginning on March 15, 2026.</footnote>
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        <signatureName>/s/ Joel M. Williams, Attorney-in-Fact</signatureName>
        <signatureDate>2025-03-18</signatureDate>
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  <p style="font-size:10pt;margin-top:0;font-family:Times New Roman;margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:center;"><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-kerning:none;min-width:fit-content;">Power of Attorney</font></p>
  <p style="font-size:10pt;margin-top:0;font-family:Times New Roman;margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:left;"><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-kerning:none;min-width:fit-content;">Know all by these presents that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints each of Joel M. Williams and Mark D. Gross, signing singly, the undersigned's true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:</font></p>
  <div class="item-list-element-wrapper" style="margin-left:4.13%;display:flex;margin-top:0;justify-content:flex-start;align-items:baseline;margin-bottom:12pt;min-width:5.87%;text-align:left;"><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-kerning:none;min-width:6.122874726191719%;word-break:keep-all;display:inline-flex;justify-content:flex-start;">1.</font><div style="width:100%;display:inline;"><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-kerning:none;min-width:fit-content;">execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned&#x2019;s capacity as an officer and/or director of World Kinect Corporation (the &#x201c;Company&#x201d;), Form ID, including other documents necessary to obtain EDGAR Codes and passwords enabling the undersigned to make filing with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the &#x201c;Commission&#x201d;) and Forms 3, 4 and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the &#x201c;Exchange Act&#x201d;), and the rules thereunder (collectively, the &#x201c;Required Filings&#x201d;);</font></div></div>
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  <div class="item-list-element-wrapper" style="margin-left:4.13%;display:flex;margin-top:0;justify-content:flex-start;align-items:baseline;margin-bottom:12pt;min-width:5.87%;text-align:left;"><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-kerning:none;min-width:6.122874726191719%;word-break:keep-all;display:inline-flex;justify-content:flex-start;">3.</font><div style="width:100%;display:inline;"><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-kerning:none;min-width:fit-content;">take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in such attorney-in-fact&#x2019;s discretion.</font></div></div>
  <p style="font-size:10pt;margin-top:0;font-family:Times New Roman;margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:left;"><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-kerning:none;min-width:fit-content;">The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such attorney-in-fact's substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this Power of Attorney and the rights and powers herein granted.  The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Exchange Act.</font></p>
  <p style="font-size:10pt;margin-top:0;font-family:Times New Roman;margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:left;"><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-kerning:none;min-width:fit-content;">This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4 and 5 with respect to the undersigned's holdings of, and transactions in, securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.</font></p>
  <p style="font-size:10pt;margin-top:0;font-family:Times New Roman;margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:left;"><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-kerning:none;min-width:fit-content;">IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed effective as of March 18, 2025.</font></p>
  <p style="font-size:10pt;margin-top:0;font-family:Times New Roman;margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:left;"><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-kerning:none;min-width:fit-content;">/s/ Ira M. Birns</font></p>
  <p style="font-size:10pt;margin-top:0;font-family:Times New Roman;margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:left;"><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-kerning:none;min-width:fit-content;">Name:  Ira M. Birns</font></p>
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