In July of 2023, a “Master Ship Repair Agreement” (MSRA) involving the US Navy was concluded at Kattupalli, Tamil Nadu, for the very first time in India. It is of great consequence to note that it was not a Government of India’s Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) shipyard but rather, a private one, owned by M/s […]
Edited by Dr Jagannath P Panda; KW Publisher Pvt Ltd New Delhi, 2020. 366 pages, ISBN 978-93-89137-29-3. (Hardcover) Amongst the most promising bilateral relations of the 21st century is the “India-Japan Special Strategic and Global Partnership”, which is special in many ways and global in its implications. In this regard, “Scaling India-Japan Cooperation in the […]
Radhika Seshan. Pan Macmillan Publishing India Pvt Ltd, 2024. 236 Pages, ISBN: 978-93-90742-50-9, Rs 357 (Paperback) Radhika Seshan’s book, “Empire of the Seas: A Human History of the Indian Ocean World”, breaks new ground in the ongoing process of re-evaluation of Indian history, in that it attempts to augment this process through a specifically “maritime” […]
Vice Admiral Pradeep Chauhan, Director-General of NMF, presented the crest to Commodore Syed Misbah Uddin Ahmad, Bangladesh Institute of Maritime Research and Development. Commodore Ahmad also presented a crest to Vice Admiral Chauhan, opening avenues for cooperation
The characteristically dynamic Indo-Pacific region witnessed another seminal geopolitical development on 02 May 2024. At the headquarters of its Indo-Pacific Command (INDO-PACOM) in Hawaii, the United States (US) teamed up with its two regional allies, Australia and Japan, to form a new grouping amongst them, which Pentagon nicknamed (the Indo-Pacific) “SQUAD”.[1] The SQUAD joins the […]
As the maritime sector charts its course into the future, it finds itself at a critical juncture, confronting the challenges of decarbonisation amidst economic and geopolitical uncertainties. Greenhouse gas emissions from the shipping industry, constituting 3% of the global total, have surged by 20% in the past decade and, in the absence of decisive action […]
Key Words: Maritime Security, National Strategy, SDG 14, Shipbuilding, European Union, Spain. India The author would like to thank Ms Anuttama Banerjee, Junior Research Associate, National Maritime Foundation, for her contribution to this article. This article seeks to: (a) highlight the major features of Spain’s newly updated “National Strategy for Maritime Security 2024”, providing policymakers […]
2nd edition of the India-Australia-Indonesia Trilateral Maritime Security Workshop was conducted at INS Dronacharya, Kochi, India. Captain Sawan and Captain Vikramaditya, Senior Fellows at NMF, delivered their presentations on the theme of collaborative efforts in the IOR.
Keywords: IUU Fishing, Fishing, Fisheries, Fisheries Policy, Small-scale fishing, Artisanal fishing, Fish landing points, Fish landing centres, Geo-tagging, GIS, Economic impact, India, Maritime, Indian Ocean, Indo-Pacific. “IUU Fishing”, as a well-known abbreviation for “Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated Fishing”, is a collective term for a broad range of fishing activities considered illegal, unreported, or unregulated […]
The resilience of submarine communication cables — which are integral to international connectivity — is receiving increasing attention at the international level.[1] Increasing the resilience of submarine communication cable systems would involve, inter alia, introduction of redundancies, i.e., introducing greater number of cables with greater carrying capacity, as well as increasing the capacity-of and […]
Given that the next two centuries are widely acknowledged to be centuries of the seas and space, it is prudent to bear in mind that over the course of these two centuries, “India will either be a maritime and space power… or she will not be any kind of power at all”.[1] This is not […]