This report was commissioned by the Scandinavian Star Task Force, established by statute by the Danish Parliament, to provide historic and contextual information accounting for market changes of relevance to the pricing of second-hand ferries in northern Europe between the advent of roll-on, roll-off services in the mid-twentieth century and the Scandinavian Star incident in 1990. There is a particular focus on factors affecting the values of ferries between the early-1980s and the early-1990s. A short bibliography of key sources is at the end of the report.