For its service to the industry on the area of model testing, MARIN offers a complete range of six dedicated basins. Tests with scale models under realistic conditions remain invaluable as an accurate and objective way to quantify and demonstrate the behaviour and performance of a ship or structure. In view of this, MARIN recently built a new offshore and a new seakeeping & manoeuvring basin and upgraded the Depressurised Towing Tank. In addition to the basins, the in-house facilities include model-making and production tooling using numerically controlled machines, development labs with electronics, mechanical and software engineers and of course our highly-skilled hydrodynamic experts, are used to ensure high end model testing. Furthermore our services are based on experience with nearly 8,000 ships, and this data base is extended with a vast amount of significant ships each year. The hands-on experience includes a wide range of ship types and propulsion units, conventional and innovative. An important asset is knowledge about the correlation between model predictions and full-scale results, which is cross-referenced often.