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Ship design and production play a decisive role in realising marine decarbonisation, as these phases largely shape a vessel's emission profile across its lifecycle. However, current industrial practices exhibit limitations that hinder the green transition, underscoring the need for innovative digital technologies to integrate ship design and production. In this context, Digital Twin (DT) technology, which can enable the real-time and bi-directional digital thread between ship design and production, holds substantial potential to accelerate the deployment of sustainable solutions across the ship lifecycle. To identify how DT applications can concretely facilitate decarbonisation in ship design, production, and their integration, this study conducts a systematic literature review aiming at addressing three research questions concerning (Ⅰ) the status of DT applications in ship design and production, (Ⅱ) DTs' role in integrating ship design and production, and (Ⅲ) insights learnt from reference sectors into such integration, particularly for decarbonisation. Accordingly, the review starts with studying the development trend of DT applications in ship design and production for decarbonisation, considering both data integration level and green technology perspectives. On this basis, the role of DTs in integrating ship design and production is identified from the literature in ship domain, while the practices and insights from reference sectors are further summarised to deepen the understanding of DT-enabled integration between product design and manufacturing. By addressing these research questions, this study highlights how future research can draw on solutions from different sectors to support the transformation of shipbuilding towards a sustainable and integrated paradigm enabled by a novel DT system.
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