Membership enhances the professional status of the individual and offers them a route to registration.

IMarEST membership is acknowledged worldwide and many key employers view membership as indicative of an individual's commitment to their career and to lifelong learning.

Professional Status and Recognition
Becoming a Corporate Member of the IMarEST provides independent recognition of your standing and experience verifies that you are a competent, qualified and committed marine professional. It is a stamp of quality that is internationally recognised in the marine sector.

In addition, Corporate Members can become registered (e.g. chartered) through The IMarEST. We offer various types of registration status for marine engineers, scientists and technologists.

Benefit from our wide range of member services
As a member of the IMarEST, you will be entitled to benefit from a range of services provided exclusively to you, including free journal subscriptions, access to information services, reduced price attendance at IMarEST technical and social events, discounts on IMarEST published books and a dedicated marine employment service plus much more.

Make your voice heard!
The IMarEST represents its members internationally at a range of marine bodies including the International Maritime Organisation (IMO), the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), as well as other national marine focussed groups.

You can contribute to policy consultations and participate at local, national and international level.

Join our global marine community
IMarEST membership provides unique opportunities for members to meet others, to network and to exchange ideas and practices. With its divisions and branches all having their own regional activities that you can take part in, you can help grow your network of marine connections.  Join a Special Interest Group or our Young Members’ Network more specifically targeted to support students and those at the start of their professional careers.

Become part of a marine tradition
For over 100 years the IMarEST has supported and represented the global marine community. Our Guild of Benevolence originates from the fund set up in 1912 to help the widows and orphans of those Engineer Officers who lost their lives in the Titanic disaster and many of maritime history’s greats have held the position of Institute President over the years, from Charles Parsons, who first saw the potential role of a steam turbine for generating electricity, to Lord Kelvin, whose name is given to the temperature scale measuring absolute zero.