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India Charts Course for Global Maritime Leadership: Kochi to Host Shipbuilding Summit 2025
Experts to discuss India’s roadmap to become a top five maritime nation by 2047
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21 OCT 2025 5:02PM by PIB Thiruvananthpuram
Kochi, October 21, 2025: As part of the Prelude to India Maritime Week 2025, Cochin Shipyard Ltd., (CSL) &Kochi is set to host the “Kochi Shipbuilding
Summit” on October 22, 2025, bringing together leading voices from India’s maritime, industry, and policy circles. Jointly organised by CSL and the Centre
for Public Policy Research (CPPR), the summit aims to chart India’s path toward becoming a global shipbuilding powerhouse by 2047.
With the theme “Steering India’s Shipbuilding Industry: Collaboration, Innovation and Investment for 2047,” the event will explore strategies to expand India’s shipbuilding capacity, strengthen domestic manufacturing, attract private and foreign investments, and enhance technological competitiveness.
Shipbuilding, referred to as the “mother industry”, is centre to India’s economic, industrial, and strategic growth. While nations like Korea, Japan, and China
dominate the global shipbuilding market, India’s demographic advantage, coastal potential, and policy push present unique opportunities for expansion
and innovation. The summit will focus on how collaborative frameworks and modernisation can transform this potential into sustainable maritime growth.
The event will be inaugurated by Shri. MadhuS Nair, CMD, CSL. Dr D Dhanuraj, Chairman, CPPR shall also speak on the occasion.
A panel discussion, moderated by Dr R. P. Pradhan, Professor at BITS Pilani, Goa Campus, and Distinguished Fellow, CPPR, will bring together eminent
experts including:
● Vice Admiral G. Ashok Kumar PVSM, AVSM, VSM (Retd) - Former Vice Chief of Naval Staff and Former National Maritime Security Coordinator, India
● Shri. Biju George, Director (Shipbuilding), Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited
● Shri. Hariraj P, Chief Operating Officer, Smart Engineering & Design Solutions Ltd (SEDS)
● Dr. Satheesh Babu P K, Associate Professor, Department of Naval Architecture and Shipbuilding, CUSAT
The discussion will highlight India’s maritime growth priorities from financial resilience and digitalisation to skill development and innovation. It will also
examine how government initiatives like the Shipbuilding Financial Assistance Scheme (Rs.24,736 crore) and the Maritime Development Fund (Rs.25,000 crore)
can boost competitiveness and generate large-scale employment.
The summit will provide a vital platform for collaboration between policymakers, industry, and academia to drive India’s shipbuilding vision for 2047, aligning with the broader national goal of Viksit Bharat.
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