Company: WKC
Filing Date: 2025-06-05
Form Type: S-8
Source: 0001193125-25-136001
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Company: WORLD KINECT CORP
Filing Date: 2025-06-05
Form: S-8
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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 5, 2025 Registration No. 333- UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549 FORM S-8 REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 WORLD KINECT CORPORATION (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

| Florida                         |     | 59-2459427         |
| (State or other jurisdiction of 
 incorporation or organization)  |     | -I.R.S. Employer   
 Identification No. |

9800 N.W. 41st Street Miami, FL 33178 (Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code) WORLD KINECT CORPORATION 2025 OMNIBUS PLAN (Full title of the plan) Jeffrey Weissman, Esq. General Counsel and Corporate Secretary 9800 N.W. 41st Street Miami, FL 33178 (Name and address of agent for service) (305) 428-8000 (Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service) Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-acceleratedfiler, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2of the Exchange Act.

| Large accelerated filer |     | ☒ |     | Accelerated filer         |     | ☐ |
| Non-accelerated filer   |     | ☐ |     | Smaller reporting company |     | ☐ |
|                         |     |   |     | Emerging growth company   |     | ☐ |

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act. ☐

PART I INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS Item 1. Plan Information The documents containing the information specified in this Part I will be sent or given to the participants in the World Kinect Corporation 2025 Omnibus Plan of World Kinect Corporation, a Florida corporation (the “Registrant”), as specified by Rule 428(b)(1) promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933 (the