| 3DP | 3D Printing and Additive Engineering |
| AI | Artificial Intelligence |
| AIS | Automatic Identification Systems |
| ANAVE | Spanish Association of Shipping Companies (from the Spanish “Asociación de Navieros Españoles”) |
| AR | Augmented Reality |
| CAD | Computer Aided Design |
| CMDS | Common Maritime Data Structure |
| Cloud | Cloud and Edge Computing |
| CRM | Customer Relationship Management |
| EU | European Union |
| FIWARE | European Union Future Internet platform |
| GIS | Geographic Information Systems |
| HMD | Head-Mounted Display |
| IAR | Industrial Augmented Reality |
| IDA* | Iterative Deepening A* algorithm |
| IMO | International Maritime Organization |
| IOS | Inter-organizational information systems |
| IoT | Internet of Things |
| IT | Information Technology |
| IT/IS | Information Technologies/Information Systems |
| MMG | Maneuvering Modeling Group |
| NLP | natural language processing |
| QR | Quick Response code |
| RFID | Radio Frequency Identification |
| Robotics | Autonomous Vehicles and Robotics |
| S-AIS | Satellite-Automatic Identification Systems |
| SDN | Software Defined Network |
| SLAM | Simultaneous Localization and Mapping |
| SOA | Service Oriented Architecture |
| SW | Software |
| UNCTAD | United Nations Conference on Trade and Development |
| UV | Unmanned vehicles |
| UAV | Unmanned aerial vehicle |
| UPM | Polytechnic University of Madrid (from the Spanish “Universidad Politécnica de Madrid”) |
| UnV | Underwater vehicles |
| VR | Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality |
| VTS | Vessel Traffic Services |