Maritime Directory

UniportBilbao / Port Community

Uniport Bilbao is a non-profit association that enhances the competitiveness of the Port of Bilbao by coordinating port agents, improving service quality, and promoting port development.

United States Marine Safety Association USMSA

The United States Marine Safety Association (USMSA) is a professional organization dedicated to promoting marine safety and supporting maritime professionals in the United States.

United States Naval Institute

The United States Naval Institute (USNI) is an independent, non-profit professional military association founded in 1873 that publishes Proceedings and Naval History magazines, books through Naval Institute Press, and provides a forum for discussion of naval, maritime, and national defense issues.

User Group for Shipping Lines and Container Terminals (SMDG)

SMDG e.V. is a registered non-profit association and official UN/CEFACT User Group dedicated to standardizing Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) messages for the maritime container business, serving shipping lines, container terminals, and related maritime organizations.

VNSI - Netherlands' Shipbuilding Industry Association

The Netherlands' Shipbuilding Industry Association (VNSI) represents the interests of the Dutch shipbuilding and shiprepair industry.

Verband Deutscher Reeder (Germany)

Verband Deutscher Reeder (VDR) is the German Shipowners' Association based in Hamburg, focusing on the interests of German shipping companies, maritime environmental and climate protection, and the promotion of the German shipping industry.

Vereniging van Rotterdamse Cargadoors (VRC)

VRC’s principal aim is to monitor ships’ agents interest’s in every respect. Much of our work involves keeping the Port of Rotterdam attractive for ships and cargo. This means ensuring a fair balance between price and quality. VRC is also a lobbying organization. Numerous local and national authorities consult VRC for advice.

Vietnam Shipagents and Brokers Association (VISABA)

Vietnam Shipagents and Brokers Association (VISABA) is an organization representing ship agents and brokers in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam, facilitating maritime services and industry collaboration.

WISTA (Women's International Shipping & Trading Association)

WSPA Western States Petroleum Association

Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA) is a non-profit trade association representing petroleum companies involved in exploration, production, refining, transportation, and marketing in six western U.S. states.

Washington Marine Group

Washington Marine Group is an association of 15 affiliated companies specializing in coastal and deep sea transportation, ship repair, shipbuilding, and marine component sales and services in Canada.

Waterways Association of Pittsburgh

Wilmington Pilots

The Cape Fear River Pilots Association is a professional harbor pilot organization based in Southport, NC, providing compulsory pilotage services to safely guide vessels to and from the Port of Wilmington via the Cape Fear River.

Working Waterfront Association WWA

The Working Waterfront Association (WWA) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving and promoting the working waterfronts of New York City and surrounding areas.

World Shipping Council

The World Shipping Council is a Washington, D.C.-based trade association representing more than forty liner shipping companies serving America's international trade. Council members include the largest container lines in the world as well as smaller niche carriers, and carriers providing roll-on/roll-off and heavy-lift services. In addition to ocean transportation, they provide a wide range of intermodal and logistics services to American importers and exporters. The Council's goal is to provide a coordinated voice for the liner shipping industry in its work with policymakers and other industry groups interested in international transportation issues, including: maritime security, regulatory policy, tax issues, safety, the environment, harbor dredging and upgrading the infrastructure needed to handle America's booming trade. Partners in America's Trade The liner shipping industry is a vital, contributing partner in America's foreign trade and economic growth. Over the past ten years, U.S. international trade in goods has doubled and rapid growth is expected in the next decade as well. Last year, U.S. oceanborne trade amounted to more than $700 billion. Liner shipping, with its network of vessels, containers, port terminals and information systems, handled two-thirds of that trade and did so smoothly, efficiently and at rates lower than those fifteen years ago. These low rates enhance the competitiveness of U.S. products in world markets and bring a variety of quality goods to our homes at low cost. Your VCR was carried from Hong Kong for about one dollar; ocean shipping services from Asia added about 40 cents to the price of the sneakers you're wearing; and it cost three cents to put that bottle of German beer in your refrigerator. The liner shipping industry is a constant innovator- linking American businesses directly and efficiently with their customers around the world on a door-to-door basis. The industry is also an essential investor in the transportation system that carries the United States' international commerce. Liner carriers have invested over $150 billion in transportation assets currently in service worldwide and, if trade projections are accurate, they will need to invest billions of dollars more in ships and equipment to service trade growth over the next ten years. With confidence in how public policy will affect our industry, members of the World Shipping Council can build on this partnership in serving America's trade and keeping the country's economy strong and growing.

Yacht Designers & Surveyors Association (YDSA)

Federation of European maritime associations providing a network to locate European ship surveyors and marine consultants.

blue funnel association/member

Blue Funnel Association is a member-based maritime organization in Australia focused on shipping and maritime industry networking.

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NAMSGlobal is an international association of certified marine surveyors providing inspection, consulting, training, education, and certification services for the maritime industry.