India is enhancing its inland ship repair and maintenance facilities. New centers in Patna and Varanasi are operational, with another plann...

Domestic shipping companies in India are set to benefit from the proposed expansion of the tonnage tax scheme in the new Income Tax Bill, 2...

The new Income Tax Bill, 2025, proposes to expand the tonnage tax scheme to include Indian inland vessels, previously excluded from this be...

Union Budget 2025: The Budget 2025-26 has introduced incentives for domestic shipbuilding, recycling, and inland waterways. Finance Ministe...

Under the new bill, Indian ships will not require separate licences. It will be presumed that they have got approvals when the vessel is re...

Central government through Inland Waterways Authority of India (lWAl), an autonomous organisation under the ministry of ports, shipping and...

The shipping ministry has proposed compulsory life saving measures for inland passenger vessels in the draft Inland Vessels (Life Saving Ap...

Sonowal said that the initiative taken is a part of the pro-active approach adopted by Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways by repeali...

Foreign vessels engaged in coastal shipping in India may be required to obtain a license from the Director-General of Shipping, besides bui...

The government today issued an order that will enable vessels so far restricted to rivers to operate in sea waters along coasts.

Around 300-odd barges carrying iron ore from different jetties to the Mormugao Port and Panaji Port have been rendered jobless, due to curr...

By the enactment of a comprehensive set of rules to make inland water (IW) transportation safe and efficient mode of transportation, Kerala...

This is with particular reference to the rejoinder from the Indian Coastal Conference (ICC), published in Economic Times on September 1, 20...

Here is a rejoinder from the Indian Coastal Conference (ICC) to the article 'River-sea vessel notification - Is it really necessary?' by Cm...

The recent announcement made by the Directorate General of Shipping regarding the proposed notification of river-sea vessels has evoked a f...

The recent Inland Vessel Act amending the existing Inland Vessel Act of 1917 passed by the Lok Sabha on August 30, 2007, has come too late ...

DGS to allow inland vessels between two ports within a distance of 40 nautical miles.