Maritime publications - Expert insights & reports

11 September 2025 | Report

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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04 September 2025 | Whitepaper

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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02 September 2025 | Whitepaper

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 technological developments.

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03 June 2025 | Report

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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26 March 2025 | Whitepaper

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, safety considerations, and more.

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12 March 2025 | Whitepaper

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 stakeholders to safely introduce ammonia and hydrogen as marine fuels and to progress towards their widespread use.

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04 March 2025 | Report

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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11 February 2025 | Whitepaper

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 industry best practices.

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04 February 2025 | Whitepaper

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 determine the most suitable WAPS business case for specific operational and decarbonization needs.

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16 January 2025 | Whitepaper

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 vessels.

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05 December 2024 | Whitepaper

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 business decisions.

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30 August 2024 | Report

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, and fuel availability, and helping stakeholders to make the correct decarbonization decisions today.

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05 June 2024 | Whitepaper

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 discusses the technology’s integration into a future carbon capture, utilization, and storage value chain, and presents an overview of global storage capacities and locations.

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19 April 2024 | Whitepaper

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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15 April 2024 | Report

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 support. These cities excel in both soft and hard infrastructure and boast elite talent to enable maritime companies and individuals to connect and prosper. The report provides detailed insights and upholds its tradition of benchmarking maritime cities across five pillars: Shipping Centres, Maritime Finance and Law, Maritime Technology, Ports and Logistics, and Attractiveness and Competitiveness.

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27 November 2023 | Paper

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 which delves into the topic of LNG and introduces new chapters dedicated to methanol and ammonia.

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26 October 2023 | Report

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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07 September 2023 | Report

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 International Maritime Organisation (IMO) and European Union (EU), the future availability of carbon-neutral fuels, some key energy efficiency technologies which can deliver short-term decarbonization results, and the role of green shipping corridors in accelerating the uptake of carbon-neutral fuels.

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06 September 2023 | Report

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 other operational data from vessels. This whitepaper provides an in-depth look into the standard and the related OVD Data Service, from its history, objectives, and scope – to use cases, benefits, and how to get started.

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07 June 2023 | Report

The future of Seafarers 2030: A decade of transformation

The latest study from Singapore Maritime Foundation and DNV examines the key drivers transforming the maritime industry, their impact on ship management and seafarers, and implications for workforce preparedness leading up to 2030.

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