Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi on March 2, 2021 inaugurated ‘Maritime India Summit 2021’ through video conferencing.
- Prime Minister also unveiled the e-plaque of ‘Sagar-Manthan’:Mercantile Maritime Domain Awareness Centre (MM-DAC). It is an information system for enhancing maritime safety, search and rescue capabilities, security and marine environment protection.
- The Prime Minister = informed that capacity of major ports have increased from 870 million tonnes in 2014 to 1550 million tonnes now.
- He also said that Indian ports now have measures such as: Direct port Delivery, Direct Port Entry and an upgraded Port Community System (PCS) for easy data flow.
