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Whitepaper20 October 2025

Maritime nuclear propulsion – Technologies, commercial viability, and regulatory challenges for nuclear-powered vessels

DNV’s white paper explores the opportunities, challenges, and pathways for integrating nuclear technology into commercial shipping.

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Maritime

Report11 September 2025

Maritime Forecast to 2050, report edition 2025

The 9th edition of the Maritime Forecast to 2050 analyses how shipping will navigate the next phase of its decarbonization journey.

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Maritime

Whitepaper04 September 2025

CO2 Shipping – Design, safety, and regulatory considerations for an emerging fleet

Download the white paper to gain insights into the key technical, regulatory, and economic factors relevant to the emerging CO2 carriers market.

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Maritime

Whitepaper02 September 2025

Ammonia in shipping: Tracing the emergence of a new fuel

This white paper provides a comprehensive overview of ammonia’s emergence in the maritime sector, offering insights into global production capacity, infrastructure readiness, regulatory progress, and ...

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Maritime

Report03 June 2025

MARITIME SAFETY TRENDS 2014–2024: Preparing for Future Risks

Our latest report provides a comprehensive analysis of incident data from Lloyd’s List Intelligence, offering insights into the current safety landscape.

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Maritime

Whitepaper26 March 2025

Shuttle Tankers – Ensuring safe, flexible, and efficient operations

Our DNV white paper provides a comprehensive overview, with in-depth analysis on key aspects related to shuttle tankers, such as dynamic positioning, loading systems and procedures, regulations, safet...

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Maritime

Whitepaper12 March 2025

Safe introduction of alternative fuels: Focus on ammonia and hydrogen as ship fuels

This paper outlines how DNV can assist shipowners in obtaining approval for ammonia- and hydrogen-fuelled ships in today’s regulatory landscape, as well as, describes the efforts required by maritime ...

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Maritime

Report04 March 2025

Energy-efficiency measures and technologies

To support the maritime industry in adopting the most effective energy efficiency measures, DNV has released a new report, Energy-efficiency measures and technologies.

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Maritime

Whitepaper11 February 2025

Safe and green ship recycling for shipowners – Compliance with HKC and EU Regulations

Our DNV guidance paper provides an in-depth overview of the Hong Kong Convention (HKC) and the EU Ship Recycling Regulations, offering guidance on compliance strategies, implementation steps, and indu...

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Maritime

Whitepaper04 February 2025

Wind-Assisted Propulsion Systems (WAPS) – How WAPS can help to comply with GHG regulations

Our white paper provides shipowners and stakeholders with a comprehensive understanding of the WAPS landscape from technical, regulatory, and economic perspectives. It offers crucial guidance to deter...

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Maritime

Whitepaper16 January 2025

Biofuels in Shipping – Current market and guidance on use and reporting

Our DNV white paper provides an overview of global biofuel supply, while also detailing technical and operational considerations for shipowners intending to adopt biofuels as a ‘drop-in’ fuel on their...

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Maritime

Whitepaper05 December 2024

FuelEU Maritime - Requirements, compliance strategies, and commercial impacts

Our DNV white paper offers a thorough overview of the FuelEU Maritime regulation, effective from 1 January 2025, helping you understand the requirements and compliance options to make well-informed bu...

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Maritime

Report30 August 2024

Maritime Forecast to 2050, report edition 2024

A deep dive into shipping's decarbonization journey. The 8th edition of our Maritime Forecast to 2050 report pragmatically assesses the road ahead for shipping, analyzing regulations, technologies, an...

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Maritime

Whitepaper05 June 2024

The potential of onboard carbon capture in shipping

Our white paper, “The potential of onboard carbon capture in shipping”, explores the technical, economic, operational, and regulatory opportunities and challenges of onboard carbon capture. It further...

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Maritime

Whitepaper19 April 2024

Availability of green and blue ammonia in 2030 to 2050

Ammonia has attracted wide interest as a source of zero-emission fuel for shipping.

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Maritime

Report15 April 2024

Leading Maritime Cities (LMC) 2024 Report

The 2024 LMC Report is the latest collaborative effort between DNV and Menon Economics, offering valuable insights into the maritime cities that offer the best policy measures, initiatives, and suppor...

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Maritime

Paper27 November 2023

Alternative Fuels for Containerships: LNG, Methanol and Ammonia

This paper series aims to explore various alternative fuel options for containerships, with a focus on technical and commercial aspects in both newbuilding and retrofits. Read the latest third edition...

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Maritime

Report26 October 2023

Paving the way for 3D model-based class approval

The shift from 2D to 3D ship design in the shipbuilding industry promises reduced costs, faster time to market, and better quality.

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Maritime

Report07 September 2023

Maritime Forecast to 2050, 2023 edition

The latest edition of Maritime Forecast to 2050 provides a deep dive into shipping’s decarbonization journey. The report explores some key themes, such as latest targets and regulations from the Inter...

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Maritime

Report06 September 2023

Operational Vessel Data (OVD) standard

Strong advocates for the implementation of an open industry standard for reporting operational data in the maritime sector, DNV's OVD is a widely used data standard for reporting log abstracts and oth...

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