India Register of Shipping (IRS) is a national ship classification society established in India in April 1975. The services of IRS are also available for purposes such as damage survey of ships, offshore structures and related equipment and containers and design appraisal, inspection and certification of fixed offshore platforms during construction on behalf of underwriters etc. It has attained full membership of International Association of Classification Societies (IACS) in June 2010.

Set up in December 1934, the Indian Roads Congress (IRC) is the Apex Body of Highway Engineers in the country

This is a daily publication on shipping, ports, railways, roadways and aviation. A part from shipping news, it publishes also (i) schedule of movements of ships due in Bombay and Nhava Sheva for export loading, (ii) movement of ships for import discharge, (ii) ships at berth at docks in Bombay and at Jawaharlal Nehru Port (Nhava Sheva), and (iv) container schedules.

A broker who has obtained a quotation fro a leading underwriter for a line of an insurance is said to indicate a rate when he informs his client of this.

A non-binding statement by an underwriter of the likely level of premium that he would charge to underwrite a risk, subject to the provision of additional information. Compare quotation.