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Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], October 30: Nitesh Narayan Rane, Maharashtra’s Minister of Fisheries and Ports Development, will deal with the inaugural session of FICCI’s fourth Maritime India Conference & Expo, which opens on the Bombay Exhibition Centre on Monday.
The occasion, operating from 2 to 4 November, will carry collectively policymakers, port authorities, delivery traces, shipbuilders, and buyers as India seeks to determine itself as a worldwide maritime hub. It is organised with help from the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways beneath the theme “India as a Global Maritime Hub: Trade, Transformation & Sustainable Growth”.
The occasion has grown considerably since final 12 months. More than 10,000 enterprise guests have already registered, and FICCI is focusing on 16,000, up from 7,200 on the earlier version. Exhibition area has expanded to 10,000 sq m, about 40 per cent greater than in 2025, and greater than 150 firms will exhibit, 92 per cent of them from the personal sector.
Karnataka, Odisha, Goa and Maharashtra are accomplice states, with their state maritime boards taking part. Mumbai Port Authority, Paradip Port Authority, V.O. Chidambaram Port Authority and Deendayal Port Authority are accomplice ports, and the Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) is the institutional accomplice.
The Netherlands, the accomplice nation, will host a devoted pavilion. Delegations from Italy, Norway and Singapore will attend, with the Italian delegation led by Mr Marco Consalvo, president of the Port of Trieste and Monfalcone. Companies and establishments from the UAE, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, France, Japan and Switzerland may also participate.
Minister Shri Rane shall be joined on the inaugural session by Mr Vijay Sankar, President-elect of FICCI and chairman of the Sanmar Group; Mr Dhruv Kotak, chair of the FICCI Committee on Ports & Shipping and managing director of JM Baxi; Mr Nabil Taouati, consul basic of the Netherlands in Mumbai; Mr Binesh Kumar Tyagi, chairman and managing director of the Shipping Corporation of India; Mr Sushil Kumar Singh, chairperson of the Indian Ports Association; Mr Shyam Jagannathan, Director General of Shipping; and Mr Sushil Kumar Lohani, chairman of IWAI.
Four FICCI data stories shall be launched in the course of the session: a FICCI-PwC report, “Smart & Future-Ready Ports”; a FICCI-A.T. Kearney report, “Trade, Logistics and Global Connectivity: Hinterland Connectivity, Modal Shift and Cargo Evacuation”; a FICCI-EY report, “Optimising India’s Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Capacity: Roadmap for Industrial Scale-Up”; and a FICCI-CRISIL report on home container manufacturing in India.
Seven plenary periods will cowl sensible ports, commerce and connectivity, logistics, shipbuilding, inexperienced delivery, inland waterways and cruise tourism, and maritime funding and safety. Participants embody world carriers and operators similar to MSC, CMA CGM, Maersk, Hapag-Lloyd, DP World and PSA, alongside main personal port teams, shipbuilders Cochin Shipyard, Mazagon Dock, GRSE and Titagarh, power firms BPCL, ONGC and Indian Oil, and monetary establishments together with Exim Bank, NIIF and IFSCA. Invite-only roundtables for chief executives and diplomats will run in parallel on the opening day.
More than 2,000 business-to-business and business-to-government conferences will match port operators, delivery traces and expertise suppliers with potential companions. State periods and roundtables on dredging, multimodal connectivity and shipbuilding coverage will carry authorities and business to the identical desk.
The programme is aligned with Maritime India Vision 2030, which units out greater than 300 initiatives for the sector. Recommendations from the periods and stories shall be submitted to the federal government, giving business direct enter into coverage on ports, shipbuilding, logistics and sustainable delivery.
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