DNV
Høvik, Norway
DNV is a ship classification society and quality assurance/risk management company that performs hull classification surveys, structural condition assessments, and technical rule development for the global merchant fleet and offshore units. It is consistently ranked among the top two or three largest classification societies by classed gross tonnage (rankings with ABS and ClassNK shift year to year; DNV does not hold an uncontested largest-tonnage position), with surveyors stationed worldwide to support in-service hull and equipment surveys.
- Headquarters
- Høvik, Norway
- Founded
- 1864
- Website
- www.dnv.com
Notable facts
- Founded in 1864 in Oslo as a mutual marine insurance classification body; merged with Germanischer Lloyd in 2013 to form DNV GL, renamed DNV in 2021
- Reported to have roughly 15,000 employees and about 350 offices in over 100 countries as of January 2024
- Classes approximately 270 million gross tons of shipping, among the largest fleets under class globally
Service categories
Sources. This profile is compiled from public reference data, WebSearch-verified againstsource 1 · source 2 · source 3. Data as of 2026-07-11. See methodology.
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