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India set to change ports policy
New Delhi is set to make some of the largest changes to its ports set-up in a generation. The shipping minister, Nitin Gadkari, outlined plans yesterday to scrap the Tariff Authority for Major Ports (TAMP) a replace it with something that he described as a “simple to understand, transparent and business friendly”.
Moreover, the nation’s 12 major ports are being coerced to form subsidiaries to focus on developing inland waterways. In total, the government has eyed 20,000 km of inland waterways as ripe for development.