INSTITUTE OF MARINE ENGINEERING, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. ‘Working to promote the development of marine engineering, science and technology and providing opportunities for the exchange of ideas and practices and upholding the status and knowledge of marine professionals.’ IMarEST is an international professional membership body and learned society for all marine professionals. IMarEST (formerly known as the Institute of Marine Engineers) is the first professional institute to adopt an all-embracing approach and to recognise the need to bring together marine engineers, scientists and technologists. IMarEST has 16,000 members in 101 countries. www.imarest.org

THE SOCIETY OF MARITIME INDUSTRIES is the voice of the UK's maritime business sector promoting and supporting companies which build, refit and modernise warships, and supply equipment and services for all types of commercial and naval ships, ports and terminals infrastructure and security, offshore oil & gas, and marine science and technology. We deliver our aims through five constituent associations: Association of British Offshore Industries (ABOI), Association of Marine Scientific Industries (AMSI), British Marine Equipment Association (BMEA),
British Naval Equipment Association (BNEA), Ports and Terminals Group (PTG). www.maritimeindustries.org