The number of new ships worldwide continues to grow, and the new technologies are developed to improve the safety and international requirements of ship are increasing as well. This special issue has a strong impact in many fields, like system monitoring and fault diagnostic, corrosion science, vessel’s propulsion systems, engineering of vessel’s superstructures, green technology and energy, advanced shipboard machinery technology, port engineering, and heat transfer technology, and related topics have been proved to be very useful and powerful tools for solving many kinds of practical problems in marine engineering. This special issue deals with the focused topics in advanced technology