In this report, we focused on the research into and development of anti-tribocorrosion coatings and technologies used in marine environment. Typical techniques to prepare protective coatings like spraying, high energy beam surface modification and physical vapor deposition (PVD) were discussed in terms of the advantage and disadvantage. Furthermore, the corrosion and wear properties of coatings obtained by the above techniques in seawater were summarized. The results showed that the nitrogen-based and carbon-based coatings prepared by PVD displayed the superior tribocorrosion resistance among the various protective coatings. Meanwhile, this report further clarified the influence of the designed composition, transition layer and multilayer structure on microstructure, mechanical and tribocorrosive properties of coatings . The analysis method and failure mechanism of the coatings in marine environment were discussed as well. In the end, the development trend of anti-tribocorrosion coatings with high performance for marine application in the near future was discussed and expected.