Samudra Supp 2016 Pre-Seminar Supplement - Samudra Manthan Awards 2016 Editor Speaks ‘The voice of...

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INDEX1. Editor Speaks .................................................................................................7

2. Governing Committee .................................................................................8

3. Award Committee ........................................................................................9

4. Samudra Manthan Awards 2016 - Jal Durg ............................................17

5. Maritime Fortifications: Challenges and Opportunities

By Dr. Louiza Rodrigues .................................................................................................19

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Editor Speaks ‘The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.’ - Kate Chopin The sea has always beckoned men both good and bad. In fact, it has been a cradle of sorts for world trade. The riches that floated over its waters have attracted adventurous men of all shades. This has led to the classic duel between the forces of good and dark, to the remotest waters in the world. So, it was logical step that fornications would crop up on small islands near ports. Building sea forts was a challenge which could only be implemented by a highly motivated and focused team led by strong leadership having fortitude to brave storms daily. The leaders of our maritime industry carry on this tradition. Sea forts existed in rudimentary forms which were later modified to withstand the challenges of changing times. As maritime trade grew these forts also evolved. The evolutionary efforts brings forth mental images of efforts during the churning of the oceans for ‘Samudra Manthan’ The very structure/shape of the Samudra Manthan Award itself depicts the churning and the dynamism and the continuality of efforts along the ages. The three curved tines of varying heights rising higher each time, depict the ongoing process of churning the relentless strive towards excellence and a desire to surpass past benchmarks resulting in being awarded with jewels which adore the tips of the tines. The need for Sea Island forts, close to the coast, grew as Indian navigation took advantage of plying close to the land, sailing in such a way that they could see land all along the route. This is akin to the metaphysical idea that a good leader must always be rooted to the ground. Each of these forts referred to as Jal Durg have their own stories to tell. Although misunderstood by many as the first line of defence in case of a naval attack, their existence was more as an enabler of trade. They provided a base to replenish supplies, protect against piracy and to provide succour when the sea changed its mood. The rulers of these forts earned revenues in return by charging a toll for all vessels that passed its waters. A symbiotic relationship existed between the seafarers and the people who manned these forts. The Indian sea forts are devoid of darker deeds like serving as a detention centre or a slave post. These very human ethics have been engrained in all successful industry leaders. The advent of colonisation slowly put these forts to dual use of trade and defence. The cannons on the forts which were facing the mainland were now turned towards the sea an indication of the mindset of the colonisers. This evokes a sense of dejavu of the changing phases of competition from local to global. The fort of Janjira, the Padmadurg fort and Janjira fort stand testimony to farsightedness of the Maratha king Chatrapathi Shivaji Maharaj who is aptly called the father of Indian navy. He is credited with building a naval armada under able naval commanders like the legendary Kanoji Angre. He was inventor of the Indian fitness sport ‘Malkhumb’, which was performed using the mast of ship. The very dexterity of the act denoted the flexibly of thought and the innovation that is displayed by all our nominees. These forts took advantages of the geographical contours of the rocks they were built on and were executed precisely as per plans. This is the very process that has gone in organising these awards which would not have been possible without the tireless dedication of all the staff at Bhandarkar publication and I would like to put my appreciation for them on record. The remnants of the thoughts, courage and fortitude that was displayed by these fort builders still pop up in known and unknown ways in our journey towards excellence. As we share the same desire to excel and leave a concrete mark in history which would be revered for times to come.

Capt. V. K. Bhandarkar - CEOBhandarkar Shipping News

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GOVERNING COMMITTEE

Mr. P. K. SrivastavaFormer CMD SCI, Former

Chairman INSA

Mr. D. T. JosephFormer Secretary & Advisor

to Ministry of Shipping

Mr. A. K. GuptaManaging Director, India

Ports Global Pvt. Ltd.

Capt. B B SinhaDirector (Personnel & Administration), The

Shipping Corporation of India Ltd.

Capt. Harish KhatriNautical Advisor, MMB

Mr. Atul KulkarniAdvisor (International Projects), Indian Ports Association

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THE AWARD COMMITTEE FOR:DIAMOND (SHIPPING COMPANY OF THE YEAR) RUBY (PORT OF THE YEAR) EMERALD (LOGISTICS COMPANY OF THE YEAR) PEARL (RAIL OPERATOR OF THE YEAR)

TOPAZ (ISO/FLEXI TANK OPERATOR OF THE YEAR) SAPPHIRE (PRT: PLACEMENT-RETENTION-TRAINING) OPAL (PROJECT CARGO OF THE YEAR)

ZIRCON (INSURER OF THE YEAR), PERIDOT (WAREHOUSING COMPANY OF THE YEAR), CITRINE (FREIGHT FORWARDER & FREIGHT BROKEROF THE YEAR)

Capt. Dinesh GautamaPresident, Navkar Logistics

Capt. Umesh Grover

Consultant Advisor, AllCargo Logistics Ltd.

Mr. Koustubh Karkhanis

Director - Projects at Bharat RE Insurance

Ms. Sanjam Sahi Gupta

President, WISTA

Mr. Karunakar Shetty

Founder, Ship Air Forwarders Pvt. Ltd.

Mr. Omprakash Agarwal

CMD, Nagarkot Forwarders Pvt. Ltd.

Capt. Sandeep KaliaDirector - NOTI

Ms. Sanjam Sahi GuptaPresident, WISTA

Mr. Omprakash AgarwalCMD, Nagarkot Forwarders

Pvt. Ltd.

Mr. S. M. RaiEx Director (T), INSA

Capt. Deepak TewariCEO, MSC Agency (India)

Pvt. Ltd.

Capt. Vivek Singh AnandDirector, NYK Line (India) Ltd

Capt. Umesh GroverConsultant Advisor,

AllCargo Logistics Ltd.

GARNET (TECHNOLOGY PROVIDER/HI-TECH OF THE YEAR) TURQUOISE (MARINE WELFARE, SAFETY & SECURITY ENGINERONMENT & PEOPLE CARE THE YEAR) AMETHYST (CONTRIBUTION TO THE MODAL SHIFT OF THE YEAR)

Mr. S. M. RaiEx Director (T), INSA

Capt. Sandeep KaliaDirector - NOTI

Capt. Kedar Chaudhary

Capt. Sunil ThaparCEO, Allcargo Shipping

Co. Pvt. Ltd.

Capt. Swanand PatankarDGM, Adani Shipping

(India) Pvt. Ltd.

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Samudra Manthan Awards 2016 – e Jal DurgBhandarkar Shipping News is a firm believer of taking road less travelled.

When Samudra Manthan Awards presents the current Jal Durg, we would want to shout only one thing to you. Only one thing.

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

India is at the stage of discussing ideas. The game changing ideas. The revolution-ary ideas.

So what is Bhandarkar Shipping News doing?

We are organising the thoughts. We are structuring the feelings. We are depending on our land, sea and air.

The Jal Durg.Jal Durg is the platform, yes The Platform, to create, recreate, learn, to unlearn, to unleash a new India, a new maritime India.

Jal Durg is the concept that protects the essence and proactively positions the mother land, India and it’s Durg, The Maritime Power.

Jal Durg fiercely upkeeps the history. Jal Durg passionately tells the story. Jal Durg fabulously creates the future.

Here ideas bloom. Talents dance. Accomplishments get recognised.

New ideas fly.

And we, only we understand -Coming together is a beginning;

keeping together is progress;working together is success.

We are giving you a platform for working together.We have two brand ambassadors for Maritime India.

The honorable Prime Minister Narendra Modi.And our honorable Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari.

The Prime Minister Narendra Modi said:

We all know that oceans cover more than seventy percent of the Earth’s surface. We also know that oceans contain ninety-seven percent of the Earth’s water. Therefore, maritime transport can be the most extensive mode of transport. It is also the most eco-friendly mode of transport. However, there is one more aspect to this fact. Which is that, oceans contain ninety nine percent of the living space on the planet. This means that our lifestyle, transport systems and trading behavior should not spoil the ecology of the oceans. Also, maritime security, freedom of navigation and safety and se-curity of sea lanes is equally important.

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Pre-Seminar Supplement - Samudra Manthan Awards 2016Jal Durg is also protecting the heritage and looking forward.

Listen to our Prime Minister:

We Indians are inheritors of a glorious maritime heritage. The world’s first dock was built at Lothal in Gujarat around 2500 BC during the Harappan Civilisation. This dock was equipped to berth and service ships. It was built after studying tidal flows.

In addition to Lothal, there were also some other Indian ports, which were major drivers of global maritime trade two thousand years ago. These included:

Barygaza - which today is known as Bharuch in Gujarat;Muziris which today is known as Kodun-gallur near Cochin in Kerala; Korkai which is today’s Tuticorin; Kaveripattinam which is in Naga-pattanam District of Tamil Nadu; and Arikamedu which is in Ariyankuppam District of Puducherry

There are many references in ancient Indian literature and in Greek and Roman works about the vibrant maritime trade of India with Rome, Greece, Egypt and Arabia. Ancient and medieval Indian traders maintained links with countries in Southeast and East Asia, Africa, Arabia and Europe.

Gadkari is hitting the headlines too for the next generation ideas. Bibop Gabriele Gresta is the Chairman of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) and has informed that he has proposed a loop between Mumbai and Pune in a meeting with Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari. HTT has proposed a feasibility study. Gresta claims that both the prime minister and the transport minister are interested in the plans, and are exploring ways of plotting a countrywide Hyperloop network.

In November, when Hyperloop One presented plans for a loop in West Asia, a teaser video for the unveiling had a Hyperloop network spreading across India, which could potentially transport a passenger from Mumbai to Pune in just under 9 minutes, a route that could take up to twenty five minutes for the Hyperloop Transportation Technologies version of the track.

The company is a transportation system conceptualised by Elon Musk which involves capsules transporting humans and cargo in high speed pneumatic tubes. Elon Musk or SpaceX does not have a stake in any Hyperloop company, but only encourage and accelerate the adoption of the technologies.

That is Gadkari.

He is thinking at least ahead of 50 years.

He is taking care of investment front. To overhaul infrastructure, government is lining up Rs 25 lakh crore for the highways and shipping sectors in 5 years.

“We are doing massive work in the infrastructure sector. There will be investment worth Rs 25 lakh crore in highways and shipping in 5 years,” Gadkari, who holds road transport, highways and shipping, said.

Minister’s estimate is the investment of Rs 25 lakh crore in the sector is bound to boost GDP by 3 per cent and this will also create at least 5 crore jobs. According to the minister, so far projects worth Rs 4 lakh crore have been awarded, including projects worth Rs 3.17 lakh crore in highways and Rs 80,000 crore in shipping. He backed up his claims saying the massive work has led to construction of 22 km of highways per day, whereas the ministry is striving to achieve 42 km a day target and is working hard in that direction. Highway construction target for 2016-17 is 15,000 km and “till October, we constructed 3,591 km”, he said. The minister said that the current BJP government so far has con-structed 14,594 km of highways while it has awarded projects for construction of another 21,247 km.

Modi is speeding ahead.

Gadkari is speeding ahead.

Jal Durg is speeding ahead.

And Indian Maritime Industry too.

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Maritime Fortifications: Challenges and Opportunities

By Dr. Louiza Rodrigues,

Associate Prof. Dept. of History, Ramnarain Ruia College, Mumbai

India’s long coastline offers a vital geo-strategic position in the Indian Ocean. From the Runn of Kutch bordering Pakistan in the west, to West Bengal, bordering Bangladesh in the east, the coast provides a splendid setting for all maritime activities. South India is a peninsula, jutting into the Indi-an Ocean, and bounded by the Bay of Bengal in the East, the Arabian Sea in the West and the Indian Ocean in the south. This location makes it imperative to ensure peace and stability in the seas around us. In order to retrospect about the present maritime condition, it is essential to go back into the glorious legacy and develop a perspective of appreciating the past and creating an urge to address challenges of an increasingly dynamic nature. The establishment of sea forts by the rulers is one of the legacies of India. Durgam in Sanskrit means -Invincible or impregnable and is the synonym for fort. Durg is a derivation of word Durgam. The difficult terrain of the Sahyadri hill making it inacces-sible, possibly could have given rise to the idea of durga and, over a period of time, led to its modern construction. Allusion to forts are found in the Vedas and the Shilpa Shastra - the ancient treatise on architecture-describes how the Kashyapas developed the art of individual protection which was later transformed into the art of collective protection.

Many forts were built by rulers on an island within close proximity to the mainland like the Kanderi, Underi, Alibag, Ravdanda, Janjira, Bankot, Anuangad, Padmadurg, Jaigad, Ratnagiri, Deogad and Savarnadurg and Vijaydurg fort. Apart from the advantage of spotting the enemy from the water, the occupants of such a fort could easily escape to the mainland.

The other categories of island forts were built a few yards away from the sea-shore so that, at low tide, many of them could be approached from the mainland without the help of ferry boats. Because they were tucked away from village or on the shore, their occupants had an unimpeded view of the surrounding countryside and could easily observe enemy movements. The enemy only discovered the existence of these forts when it arrived within the firing range, by that time it was too late. The sea-level location gave the people in the forts a tremendous advantage. These forts were Arnala, (in the Bassien Taluka), Janjira (at Colaba), and Sindhudurg (Malwan).

The Maratha king Shivaji realised the strategic importance of these forts when he tried to capture Janjira which belonged to Siddi Johar and as a counter balance build the Sindhudurg fort at Malwan and later strengthened the defenses by adding Sarjekot—a small fortress some yards away. Anoth-er sea fort, Vijaydurg, located in Devgad district was built by King Bhoj in 1205 and was known as “Gheria. Shivaji, took over this fort and named it ‘Vijaydurga’ this fort was also known as “Eastern Gibraltar” as the fort was impregnable. Deep ditches cut out of solid rock at Vijaydurg and Redi helped to prevent the enemy from entering the ‘bale killa’, which was the innermost citadel. It also protected the palaces, temples and other residential sites inside the fort. The sea level location gave the people in the forts a tremendous advantage.

The earlier fort covered area of 5 acres and was surrounded by sea on all the 4 sides. Shivaji added triple rows of huge walls, umpteen towers and spacious inner buildings to it and strengthened it in the 17 century. Once naval base, Vijaydurg fort and Sindhudurg fort bear testimony to Maharashtra’s

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Pre-Seminar Supplement - Samudra Manthan Awards 2016martial supremacy during Shivaji’s reign.

The present Government’s Sagarmala project initiative is a challenge which could find parallels with the development of Jal Durg as mentioned above. The government promised to build new world-class ports and to modernize the old ones all along the Indian coastline as part of what it calls ‘port-led development’. The farsighted vision of the government is to enhance coastal and inland waterway movement of cargo. After more than two decades of economic reforms in the 1990’s and growing trade volumes, India’s dependence on the waters of the Indian Ocean has dra-matically grown.

World has awoken to the importance of the Asian trade block which has prompted China to build a maritime silk road connecting the Pacific and the Indian oceans.

The Sagarmala project is estimated to create 10-million jobs, said Nitin Gadkari, the current Minister for Road Transport and Highways and Shipping, at the Maritime India Summit held in April 2016 in Mumbai. Besides resulting in business agreements for Rs 82,905 crore investments, the summit played a key role in highlighting the role of port led development for faster and sustainable eco-nomic growth. The National Perspective Plan of Sagarmala project, which was released by the Prime Minister Sh. Narendra Modi on April 14, 1916 underlined Government’s seriousness in boosting port led infrastructure development.

The summit provided a platform for participation, engagement and interaction from 42 countries.

Developing India’s 7,500 km coastline will boost merchandise exports by $110 million and increase coastal shipping volumes by as much as five times of the current levels to about 330 to 420 million tons per annum. It could mobilize investment of about Rs. 4 lakh crore in India’s infrastructure sector over the next 10 years. The National Perspective Programme for Sagarmala was launched here by Prime Minister Narendra Modi .

“The programme could lead to annual logistics cost savings of close to Rs. 35,000 crore, and of the 10-million new jobs that will be created, 40 lakh will be direct employment,” Gadkari has said.

The Sangarmala project is an amalgamation of 150 projects categorized into port modernization, connectivity, port-led industrialization and coastal community development, with the government planning to invest Rs.12 lakh crore under various programmes.

There would be 14 coastal economic zones in Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha and West Bengal.

China’s ‘String of Pearls’ in the Indian Ocean.

Over the last decade, China has embarked on the construction of a number of ports in India’s neigh-bourhood, beginning with Gwadar in Pakistan, and Hambantota in Sri Lanka.

India’s immediate problem, however, is not the near-term prospect of China acquiring military fa-cilities in the Indian Ocean. The real problem for India is the massive gap with China in the civilian maritime domain. Out of the top 10 busiest container ports in the world, China has seven. India’s Jawaharlal Nehru Port near Mumbai is placed at number 30 and is the only one in the list of top 50. The same is the case when we compare the tonnage of merchant fleet or the ship-building capacities. If the present government is serious about generating millions of jobs through manufacturing and trade, it must necessarily focus on a rapid expansion of India’s maritime infrastructure. ‘Sagar Mala’ could be a good first step in this direction.

Without strong national maritime capabilities, India will find it hard to either compete or coop-erate with Beijing in Asia’s waters. Beijing has trumped the talk of rivalry with India by inviting

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Pre-Seminar Supplement - Samudra Manthan Awards 2016India to join China in the building of a maritime silk Route across the Indo-Pacific.

The origins of the Indian navy can be traced back to Gujarat. It was a way back in 1612 that the East India Company established a marine force at Surat to combat piracy in the Arabian Sea and secure British commercial shipping with India. Even in the early nineteenth century, the British embarked on the construction of war ships to combat the French peril under Napoleon who had expressed his desire to invade India. Two centuries later, not much seems to have changed, as most of the world’s major navies, including that of China, are in the Arabian Sea in the name of fighting piracy. What has changed, though, is the volume and strategic significance of India’s trade. While the British Raj inte-grated Indian with the global markets across the seas, India, in the early decades of independence, showed scant attention to such development.

Two factors led India to turn its back on the sea. One was India’s choice of self-reliance as the nation-al strategy of economic development. Once India shunned trade, it was inevitable that its maritime vision would blur. It was only when India began to globalise its economy at the turn of the 1990s that India woke up to the maritime imperative. A quarter of a century later, India’s world trade, most of which moves by the sea, now stands at nearly 50 per cent of its GDP. India is also profoundly de-pendent on the import of energy resources by sea. Yet, the development of maritime infrastructure, whether it is building world-class ports or expanding India’s shipbuilding capacity, has not kept pace with its growing reliance on the sea. Nor has Delhi developed the two island chains in the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea that gives India extraordinary maritime reach and potential influence.

‘History has shown that whatever power controls the Indian Ocean, has, in the first instance, In-dia’s sea borne trade at her mercy, and in the second India’s very independence itself’. India thus occupies an important position in the Indian Ocean and that the Indian Navy is a potent tool avail-able to the political establishment for the conduct of international relations. The Indian Ocean has been and continues to be the most dynamic region in strategic and economic terms.

Maritime developments, be it the war on terror in Afghanistan or securing oil supplies routes from the Persian Gulf or the emergence of sea piracy of the Somali coast off Gulf of Aden, are integral to the regional economic and security environment. The Indian Ocean waterways have strategic sig-nificance for both merchant and naval shipping and therefore global economic prosperity is inter-twined with maritime security affairs. In this context, Indian Navy has an important responsibility to safeguard and secure the smooth growth of maritime enterprise in the Indian Ocean.

“Our location on top of the Indian Ocean between the sea routes from the Cape of Good Hope and the Mediterranean and the energy sources of the Gulf to the strategic Malaccca Straits gives us a vantage point and responsibility to safeguard the security of our energy supplies and shipping in the Indian Ocean region”.

A key driver of India’s maritime strategy is the need to build an adequate infrastructure to meet the needs of a fast growing economy that is becoming increasingly economically integrated. Non-tra-ditional security threats are becoming important challenges in India’s neighbourhood, particularly as it relates to the Indian Ocean. These include piracy, maritime terrorism, organized crime at sea, drug and human trafficking, smuggling of arms and climate change, etc. etc.

To conclude, India, being the largest coastal state, has to enhance its naval capability and activity to protect its borders as well as its sea routes and protect the interest of the other countries in the Indian Ocean region. There is a greater potential for enhancing and institutionalizing economic cooperation in the exploration and exploitation of sea resources in the Indian Ocean waters. In-deed, the Sagarmala project, is a challenge and an opportunity for the maritime industry to take the vision to fruition in the near future.

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