Abstract: The maritime industry has a very strong influence on world trade. In the shipping world, fuel has a very important role to ship operations. The speed of the vessel is an important factor affecting the ship’s fuel consumption. In recent years, many research that have been done that focuses on the fuel efficiency of ships. This study is a review of the effect of ship speed on ship fuel consumption. Paper used as literature in this study is a collection of papers from 2000-2017 that discusses the relationship between speed with fuel consumption. There are several methods that using the ship speed as the main parameter to decrease the fuel consumption of the ship.