May 2020 - National Maritime Foundation

HYDROGEN FUEL ADOPTION: AN OCEAN RENEWABLE ENERGY APPROACH PART 2: GUIDING INDIA’s INEVITABLE TRANSITION TO THE REPLACEMENT OF FOSSIL-FUELS BY CLEAN RENEWABLE ENERGY

The succeeding paragraphs constitute the second part (Part 2) of a three-part advocacy of the need for India to secure its future energy-security by effecting a transition away from fossil fuels. The three parts, taken in aggregate, seek to…

COVID 19 AND INDIA: THE CHALLENGE OF MARINE DEBRIS

IS COVID-19 LIKELY TO CHANGE THE SECURITY ORDER OF THE WESTERN PACIFIC IRREVOCABLY?

ASSESSING THE LONG-TERM COMMITMENT OF JAPAN WITHIN THE INDIAN OCEAN REGION: THE JMSDF IN WEST ASIA

ANTI TERRORISM DAY

FRANCE: MAKE IN INDIA AND THE INDO-PACIFIC CONNECT

Much has been said about the delivery of the first two Scorpene submarines from France to India, and especially about the associated technology transfer, allowing India to consider the construction of the next four engines on its own. However,…

MAKING WAVES: AN E-NEWS BRIEF (1-15 MAY 2020)

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MITIGATING COVID-19 : THE INDIAN NAVY IN THE VANGUARD — AS ALWAYS

This article seeks to provide the lay reader an insight into the Indian Navy’s centrality and the positivity of its contribution — at the strategic, operational and tactical levels — to India’s maritime efforts to mitigate the adverse…

MAKING WAVES: AN E-NEWS BRIEF (16-31 APRIL 2020)

Desh Ujala, India's biggest container vessel

ADOPTION BY INDIA OF HYDROGEN: AN OCEAN RENEWABLE ENERGY APPROACH PART 1:GEOPOLITICS OF WEST ASIA & CLIMATE CHANGE

GEOPOLITICS OF WEST ASIA & CLIMATE CHANGE AS COMPELLING DRIVERS OF INDIA’S SHIFT TO RENEWABLE RESOURCES OF ENERGY This article is an integral part of the series of major research-studies on the maritime facets of India’s energy security,…

CRUDE-OIL STORAGE IN AN ERA OF PLENTY- Part 2: LESSONS FROM THE USA’s STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVE

This is the second in an ongoing series of articles by the author on issues relevant to the strategic storage of crude oil. Part 1 had focussed the reader’s attention upon the prevailing state of India’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve…

CRUDE-OIL STORAGE IN AN ERA OF PLENTY: Part 1: INDIA’S STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVES

Abstract Excess crude oil in the global market, coupled with the drastic reduction of consumption in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and the resultant curtailment of seaborne transport, have led to a phenomenon hitherto unseen in…