Licensing of Indian Ships

• Ministry of Shipping has decided that life time licences will be issued to Indian Ships and any other ship charted by an Indian citizen or an Indian company instead of such licences being renewed every year as of now.

• It is approved by the Minster for Road Transport and Highways and Shipping Shri Nitin Gadkari also provides for all the five Registrars of Ships at Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkatta, Goa and Cochin to issue such licenses under the provisions of the Merchant Shipping Act,1958

• Such licences will be issued with a life time fee now instead of annual fee but the licence will be co-terminus with the certificate of Registry of the Ship.