Turkish Shipbuilders’ Association (GISBIR) was established by shipyard owners on 07.07.1971 in Istanbul. Improving the Turkish shipbuilding industry, helping the Turkish shipyards to take place in world market, finding solutions for common problems of shipyards through relevant authority, representing the Turkish Shipbuilding Industry in national and international areas are among the missions of GISBIR.

The UK Major Ports Group is the trade association for the UK's largest and most ambitious port operators.

The UGS represents Greek-owned vessels over 3,000 gt under Greek and other European and third-country flags. The UGS has traditionally supported and fostered policies ensuring a truly competitive business environment, free trade, global rules and regulations and first and foremost safety of life at sea and a sustainable environment.

With 197 Parties, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has near universal membership and is the parent treaty of the 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement. The main aim of the Paris Agreement is to keep a global average temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees Celsius and to drive efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

The United States Marine Corps (USMC) is a branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for providing power projection, using the mobility of the United States Navy, by Congressional mandate, to deliver rapidly, combined-arms task forces on land, at sea, and in the air. The U.S. Marine Corps is one of the four armed service branches in the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States.

Zero Emissions Ship Technology Association (ZESTAs) is an international organization constituted as a non-profit trade association. Zero Emissions means zero GHG emissions at the point of use on the vessel with minimal upstream impacts. By combining zero-emission technologies, it achieves zero emissions at a shipboard level faster.