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Union Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways Sarbananda Sonowal accorded a ceremonial invited to the nation’s archetypal Very Large Gas Carrier (VLGC) Shivalik astatine the Visakhapatnam port, connected its maiden telephone to the federation connected Monday (October 6, 2025).
Shivalik, precocious inducted nether the Indian emblem by the Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) Ltd. connected September 10, represented a important leap successful India’s maritime and vigor logistics capability.
Mr. Sonowal congratulated the SCI squad and lauded the Visakhapatnam Port Authority (VPA) for facilitating the vessel’s creaseless handling during its inaugural LPG consignment operation, astatine the port’s LPG terminal.
Addressing the gathering, Mr. Sonowal remarked that the induction of Shivalik nether the Indian emblem is simply a arrogant infinitesimal for the federation and a testament to India’s increasing spot successful planetary shipping and vigor trade. He highlighted that this milestone is successful cleanable alignment with the imaginativeness of Atmanirbhar Bharat and Maritime India Vision 2030, reinforcing India’s pursuit of self-reliance, indigenous ownership, and planetary competitiveness successful the maritime sector.
Speaking to the media, Mr. Sonowal said that Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu has adopted a proactive attack to make a shipbuilding centre astatine Dugarajapatnam successful the State, and the Centre volition enactment it successful each aspects.
“As per the imaginativeness for 2030 and 2047, India is going to go the astir developed federation successful the world. By 2030, India is going to go 1 of the apical 10 shipbuilding nations and volition beryllium among the apical 5 by 2047.”
Visakhapatnam MP M. Sribharat reiterated Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s imaginativeness of ensuring door-to-door state transportation crossed India, noting that specified initiatives bring the federation person to achieving cosmopolitan vigor accessibility. The induction of Shivalik is 1 of the steps to execute the goal, helium added.
The Visakhapatnam Port Authority president Angamuthu commended SCI for its progressive inaugural and reaffirmed VPA’s committedness to providing each imaginable support. He assured that the Port volition enactment intimately with the A.P. State authorities to alteration Visakhapatnam into a starring vigor logistics hub connected the eastbound coast.
