Joint Industry Project (JIP)

A joint industry project (JIP) is a collaborative research effort in which multiple companies, often with a class society or research institute as coordinator, pool funding and data to solve a shared technical problem they would not tackle alone. In shipping, JIPs develop the rules, risk assessments, and design guidance for ammonia and methanol bunkering, onboard carbon capture, and hydrogen handling, where the safety and engineering questions are common across the industry. The structure spreads cost and de-risks first-of-a-kind work, and the deliverables, such as bunkering safety guidelines or class technical notes, feed into rules and standards.