The Maritime Research Institute Netherlands was founded in 1929 as the Netherlands Ship Model Basin (NSMB) by the Dutch government and industry. Work was started in 1932, following completion of the deep water towing tank.
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.
VTT (Technical Research Centre of Finland) is an independent multi-disciplinary research center. It is the largest contract research organization in the Nordic countries.
Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) was founded on 2000 from the former Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan Transportation University and Wuhan Automotive Polytechnic University. The former Wuhan Transportation University mainly originated from National Maritime Vocational School in 1946.
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