New Mangalore Port Authority Chairman AV Ramana speaks at a stakeholders’ assembly forward of the Port Authority’s participation in India Maritime Week 2025 (October 27 to 31) in Mumbai on Thursday, October 23, in Mangalore. , Photograph Credit score: HS MANJUNATH
The New Mangalore Port Authority (NMPA) bets huge within the upcoming India Maritime Week (IMW) 2025, scheduled from October 27 to October 31 in Mumbai because it gears as much as spotlight Karnataka’ maritime capabilities. and different strengths of the Port.
Authority Chairman AV Ramana on Thursday (October 24, 2025) instructed a stakeholders’ assembly that the port would current its sustainable port growth initiatives, digital transition pathways and rising funding alternatives, with MoUs value roughly ₹53,000 crore anticipated to be signed throughout the occasion.
He stated the IMW to be held at Bombay Exhibition Heart stands as one of many nation’s most influential maritime platforms, bringing collectively international leaders, innovators, business stakeholders, expertise builders, policymakers and buyers to deliberate on the way forward for maritime commerce, sustainability, digital transformation and coastal financial growth. NMPA will take part together with MRPL, HPCL, NTCPWC, NITK and different Port-Led industries from the area.
Mr. Ramana stated the occasion options thematic periods, CEO roundtables, expertise showcases, coverage dialogues and strategic networking engagements geared toward accelerating India’s Blue Economic system imaginative and prescient. NMPA is the Platinum Sponsor for IMW 2025.
a number of panels
NMPA will take part in a number of high-level panel discussions led by Mr. Ramana, together with Karnataka State Session, “Exploring PPP Synergies for a Sustainable Blue Economic system,” to drive sustainable progress throughout ports, fisheries, coastal infrastructure and marine innovation. He can be a speaker on the Maritime Digitalisation & Future Tech Summit’s World CEO Roundtable on October 30, the place discussions will middle on funding priorities, regulatory enablers, world-class port growth, progress in coastal delivery and inland waterways, growth of shipbuilding and restore capability, cruise tourism potential, maritime providers, talent growth and port-led industrialisation.
He may also reasonable the GMIS session on cruise and passenger economic system, “Crusing into Prosperity: Navigating Alternatives in Cruise and Passenger Mobility,” that delves into coastal cruising prospects, passenger terminal enhancement, leisure tourism infrastructure and international greatest practices to place India as a aggressive cruise vacation spot. It can additionally discover ROPAX providers as an economically viable transport various and consider river cruise tourism alternatives from each international and Indian views.
Mr. Ramana stated Karnataka, with its vibrant shoreline and strategic commerce linkage, is poised to emerge as a key contributor to India’s maritime progress story, mixing financial progress with ocean. stewardship.
Revealed – October 24, 2025 03:11 pm IST