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Union Minister for Ports, Shipping, and Waterway Sarbananda Sonowal connected Friday (January 09, 2026) said that the determination to make the vessel gathering clump was taken during the caller sojourn of Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu to Delhi. An SPV (Special Purpose Vehicle) was signed by the Visakhapatnam Port Authority (VPA) and the A.P. Maritime Board successful this regard.
He was speaking astatine the inaugural of the 3rd Indian Lighthouse Festival, organised by the Ministry of Ports, Shipping, and Waterways and the Director General of Lighthouses and Lightships astatine the MGM Park, connected the Beach Road, here, connected Friday evening.
He besides said that ₹305 crore Indian Ship Technology Centre would beryllium acceptable up successful Visakhapatnam, nether the Indian Maritime University (IMU). He said that Visakhapatnam would look arsenic a nationalist hub for vessel plan and research.
He pointed retired that India’s Blue Economy is aligned with the Maritime Vision, which aims to presumption India arsenic a planetary maritime powerfulness crossed each verticals including vessel building, vessel repair, recycling, larboard capableness and operational efficiency.
The Ministry has undertaken respective transformative initiatives successful Andhra Pradesh, helium said, adding that 1 of the astir ambitious was the improvement of a Greenfield Port and National Mega Ship gathering Cluster astatine Dugarajupatnam. It would person a capableness of 5,00,000 GT and lend to the Prime Minister’s “Amrit Kal” imaginativeness of making among apical 5 maritime nations successful the world.
