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Water Transport in India
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There are 2 kinds of water transport:
Inland Water Transport (IWT) or river transport
Costal or Marine Transport
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Inland Water Transport
It comprises of variety of rivers, canals, creeks etc.
Cheapest mode of transport
Labor intensive
No investment
Benefits the weaker community
Only requirement : navigable water
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It forms a small part of total transport network of the countryit carries about 17 million tones which is only 0.15% of
domestic transportation.
It extends up to 14500kms of which 5200kmsof major river
and 485 canals. Inland river transport is important in ASSAM, WEST
BENGAL, BIHAR.
Highly important in KERLA where rivers and backwaters are
used to transport goods and people.
Some importance in ORISSA, ANDHRA
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Some waterways are not exploited potentially because:
Shallow water and narrow width of channel- during dry weather.
Bank erosion and lack of navigational aids.
No attempts have made to modernize the craft.
Inadequate co-ordination in hydle power flood control navigation
irrigation prorject.
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Indian shipping Before independence, Indian shipping companies did not survive
due to sever competition from foreign shipping companies.
Scindia Steam navigation Company was only one company facingthe competition.
At this time there were only 42 ship less than 100000 GRT
(Gross Registered Tonnage).
Indian ships carried only 2% of the volume of India's overseastrade.
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GROWTH
In 1947 the Govt. appointed a Shipping Policy Committee which
recommended a National Shipping Policy.
India should secure 100% of her coastal trade.
Secure 75% of trade from BURMA,CEYLON, and other
neighboring countries.
Indian Shipping Tonnage has grown from 0.2million GRT in
1950-51 to 2.2million GRT in1998-99
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The 6th five year plan proposed to
Give importance and encouragement to inland watertransport
Declared certain waterways ass national waterways, replace
vessels, modernize dockyard etc.
Grant of subsidy to inland water transport, entrepreneurs to
acquire mechanized vessels and modernize the existing craft
including country boats
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Govt. participation
The govt. set up 2 Shipping Corporation:
The EASTERN SHIPPING CORPORATION in1952 to operate with Australia and the far east.
The WESTREN SHIPPING CORPORATION in
1956 to operate on Indo-Persian Gulf, Indian Red
Sea and Indo-Poland routes.
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In 1961, the 2 corporations were merged to form SHIPPING
CORPORATION of INDIA (SCI).
It had a fleet of 160 vessles aggregating 4 million tones GRT andwas ranked the largest shipping companies of the world.
There are 66 Shipping Companies in the country of which 16 are
engaged in costal. 43 in the overseas trade. 7 in both.
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India has got 4 major shipping yards:
Visakhapatnam
Calcutta
Bombay
Cochin
There are 2 major public sector ship building yards:
Hindustan Shipping Ltd
Cochin Shipping Ltd
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Problems
1st major problem is the inadequacy of tonnage
capacity.
The Indian container fleet is almost negligable. The Indian fleet is over aged with resulting high
operating cost.
Geographical position.
Inadequate infrastructure.
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Reforms
The Govt. of India announced a new shipping policy in 1990-
91 in conformity with liberalization.
Automatic approval for private shipping companies for
acquisition of all categories of ships, except crude oil tanker.
No approval for sale of ship
Freedom to timer charter out in Indian ships to foreigncompanies to raise foreign exchange.
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Merchant Shipping Act 1958 has been amended to facilitate
Indian companies to raise foreign exchange loans abroad by
mortgaging their vessels.
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In November 2005, the cabinet gave flexibility to state-
owned firms importing liquefied natural gas (LNG).
Last week, the Indian cabinet allowed state-run steel
makers STEEL ATHORITY OF INDIA LTD (SAIL)
and RASHTRIA ISPAT NIGAM LTD (RINL) to directly
hire vessels to import raw materials, mainly coking coal,
without going through Transchart, the centralized ship-
chartering wing of the government.
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In September 2012, the cabinet allowed foreign registered
container ships to carry cargo between the countrys ports,provided they shipped containers out or in through the
international container transhipment terminal at
Vallarpadam in Cochin port.
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