By Dr A. Adityanjee
The Arctic region is home to almost four million inhabitants, of which approximately one-tenth are indigenous people. The United States Geological Survey estimates that up to 25-30% of the world’s remaining oil and natural gas resources might be held within the Arctic Region. The five littoral states, Canada, Russia, USA (Alaska), Denmark (Greenland) and Norway, have competing claims over the Arctic. Together with the five Arctic littoral states, three regional states, Finland, Iceland and Sweden, constitute the eight-member Arctic Council. The Arctic is considered the final frontier for the human to conquer. Resource competition and human migration will become facts of life in the Arctic region as the snow melts. Economic and mercantile competition among nation states for natural resources is bound to result in strife and conflict at some point in time. Every nation must secure its strategic interests. China has steadily increased its footprint in the Arctic f
India Boat and Marine Show gets under way
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The third edition of the India Boat and Marine Show has begun on https://boatshow.exposim.io/ with the pandemic remaining unabated.
Vice Admiral A.K. Chawla, Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Southern Naval Command, inaugurated the show while KMRL managing director Alkesh Kumar delivered the keynote address.
There were special addresses by M.G. Rajamanickam, managing director of KSIDC and Mathew George, director, Inland Waterways Authority of India.
The show, which features a range of stakeholders in the recreational and leisure boating market, making speed boats, engines, navigational and other systems and equipment, and other supply and service providers, will close on Thursday.
India s Act East policy takes wings with focus on water connectivity with neighbours
Wed, Feb 10 2021 09:04:23 PM
By Ateet Sharma
New Delhi, Feb 10 (IANS): With the Narendra Modi government keen to develop the waterway connectivity with its neighbours, India, Bhutan, Nepal, and Bangladesh are working together to strengthen waterways as the mode of intra-regional transport. The push will not only boost trade activity between the South Asian countries but also open doors to the geostrategic Southeast Asian waters.
The move is a further amplification of India s Act East Policy, which focuses on New Delhi s outreach towards its eastern maritime neighbours, especially the 10 nation ASEAN and island territories with a large Indian diaspora.
Cargo ferry via National Waterway to resume service
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Barge with containers to resume service this month
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The barge that was previously used for transporting containers on the Kottayam-Kochi inland waterway route.
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Barge with containers to resume service this month
The transportation of containers through the Kottayam-Kochi National Waterway (NW) corridor will resume in a fortnight after a two-year lull, decongesting roads and at the same time ushering in an economical, eco-friendly and energy-efficient mode to ferry cargo.
A 240-tonne barge capable of carrying up to twenty 20-feet containers had conducted four trips in the corridor, which is part of NW IX and NW III, in March 2019, carrying export / import cargo. The transit time along the 85-km waterway is around seven hours.