Virtual Marine Arsenal

The Aalto Ice Tank is a multipurpose basin, which is mainly used for ice model scale tests, but can also be employed for tests in open water.

Aker Arctic is running a third generation ice model testing facility.

The Ice Engineering Facility Testing Basin at ERDC’s Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) is the largest refrigerated tow tank in the United States.

Hamburgische Schiffbau Versuchsanstalt / the Hamburg Ship Model Basin or HSVA is a private, self-supporting, non-profit organisation providing research and consultancy services to the worldwide maritime industry.

Ishikawajima Shipyard was established in 1853 as the root of IHI - Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries.

JMU - Japan Marine United Corporation is an integration of two companies, Universal Shipbuilding and IHIMU.

KRISO stands for Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering and founded in 1973.

Founded in 1894, Naval Administration Towing Tank is the first in Russia and the sixth in the world research institution performing ship model tests to find engine power requirements for specified speeds and hull lines with the least power requirements.

In 1884 the founder of Mitsubishi took a lease of Government-owned Nagasaki Shipyard. This shipbuilding business was later turned into Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. and was again launched as Mitsubishi Heavy-Industries, Ltd. (MHI) in 1934.

National Maritime Research Institute (NMRI) has been established in 1916  as the Ship Equipment Inspection Station under the Ministry of Telecommunication and Transport in Japan.

The National Research Council of Canada (NRC) is the Government of Canada's premier research and technology organization. Towing tank works since 1985.

The School of Civil Engineering of Tianjin University was founded in 1997, including Department of Naval and Ocean Engineering.