Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi on November 8, 2020 announced that Government is changing the name of the Ministry of Shipping.
- Now, it will be known as the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways.
- On 17th November, 2000, the “Ministry of Surface Transport” was bifurcated into two different Ministries as “Ministry of Shipping and “Ministry of Road Transport & Highways” and in October, 2004, both these Ministries again merged and renamed as “Ministry of Shipping, Road Transport & Highways” with two different Departments i.e.
- “Department of Shipping” and “Department of Road Transport & Highways”. In 2009, “Ministry of Shipping” was again formed by bifurcating these two Ministries into separate Ministry.
