The Indian ministry of shipping has launched Maritime Agenda 2010-20 in January, 2011.

The agenda is a perspective plan of the ministry for this decade and gives a visit and road map for comprehensive development of the maritime sector.

The overall vision of the ministry as per the Maritime Agenda aims towards navigating and steering the Indian maritime sector realistically into the premier maritime nations of the world.

This document basically presents an agenda in the Shipping Sector for consideration within overall objective to increase efficiency of the delivery system and overall pace of growth in the sector.

Indeed, this is a path breaking document which will serve as road map for all ports (major as well as non major ports) and the shipping sector during the decade 2010-2020