Self-reliance key to India’s maritime superpower ambition, says Sarbananda Sonowal

India cannot support depending connected overseas shipping enactment for commercialized and has to make a maritime ecosystem to instrumentality enactment successful the sector, Union Minister for Ports, Shipping and Waterways Sarbananda Sonowal said connected Monday. In a speech with The Hindu, Mr. Sonowal spoke astir India’s propulsion towards greenish shipping fuels, shipbuilding expansion, instrumentality manufacturing and advancement of the Sagarmala projects that aims astatine  enhancing infrastructure related to port-led industrialisation, coastal assemblage development, and inland waterways. Edited excerpts: