Japan K Pathak, Gandhinagar: The Gujarat Maritime Board (GMB) has announced key amendments to its Ship Recycling Regulations, 2015, aimed at optimizing land use and streamlining operational norms within the ship recycling industry. The amendments, approved by the Government of Gujarat, were officially published in the Gujarat Government Gazette on March 21, 2025. The notification, referenced as GMB/Alang/1/2025/556/1284, outlines several changes to the existing regulations. These amendments a...Read More

Japan K Pathak, Gandhinagar: The Gujarat government is set to initiate the Port City project in the near future. Finance Minister Kanubhai Desai has proposed an allocation of Rs. 100 crore for the financial year 2025-26 in the annual budget of the state, which he presented on February 20th. An amount of Rs. 100 crore provisioned under the head of department of Ports in the budget shall be utilized as government equity participation for the proposed Special Purpsoe Vehicle(SPV) for the Port city...Read More

Gandhinagar: Ports regulated, operated, and facilitated by the Gujarat Maritime Board (GMB) saw a 15% increase in cargo traffic during the first quarter of the 2024-25 financial year compared to the same period last year. Cargo traffic at non-major ports rose from 106 million metric tonnes (MMT) in Q1 2023-24 to 122 million metric tonnes in Q1 2024-25. Private ports, however, experienced a significant 20% growth in cargo handling, while GMB-operated ports saw a decline of 9%. Private ports an...Read More

Gandhinagar: Boating and Water Sports facilities across Gujarat were forced to shut early this year after Harni lake boat tragedy in Vadodara over safety reasons. The State goverment has maintained that water sports and boating activities will resume in the State only after new rules are announced and followed. After a long wait, Gujarat Maritime Board (GMB) has on 25 June published draft rules titled as the "Gujarat Inland Vessels Rules, 2024" to regulate water activities in Gujarat. These ru...Read More

Porbandar: The Gujarat Maritime Board (GMB) is set to construct a breakwater and two jetties for the Indian Navy in Porbandar and Dwarka, with an estimated cost of Rs 1,038 crore. An MoU has been signed between the Indian Navy and GMB. According to this agreement, GMB will oversee the construction of a breakwater and a jetty in Porbandar, along with an additional 600-meter-long jetty in Okha, Dwarka. The total projected cost for both projects is Rs 1,038 crore. A breakwater, an artificial ...Read More

Gandhinagar: As of December, the Gujarat Maritime Board, which handles 48 non-major posts of the state, had handled 308.9 million tonnes of cargo for the year 2022-23. With an average of 35 million tonnes per month, total cargo is expected to exceed the 411 million tonnes achieved in 2019-20. A GMB official told the media, "GMB's ports and jetties have seen a 2.69% increase in traffic in the April-December period from last year. The monthly traffic was around 35 million tonnes, so we expect t...Read More

Ahmedabad: Enforcement Directorate (ED) today said it has provisionally attached assets worth Rs 134.38 crores of Aatash Norcontrol Ltd under PMLA, 2002 in the Gujarat Maritime Board scam. In 2019 CID (crime) Gujarat had arrested the chairman and managing director of the scam-hit Aatash Norcontrol Pvt Ltd, Jinofur Bhujwala, and four other persons including a senior government official, in connection with a fraud that has caused a loss of Rs 134 crore to the exchequer after a complaint by th...Read More

Gandhinagar: Gujarat Maritime Board(GMB) will be setting up India’s first international maritime services cluster at GIFT City. The Maritime Cluster will be developed as a dedicated ecosystem comprising of Ports, Shipping, Logistics services providers and pertinent Government Regulators, all present in the same geographic vicinity (i.e. GIFT City). The cluster will further leverage the proximity and accessibility of these stakeholders to enable a synergetic collaboration. The Cluster intend...Read More

Hazira: Adani Hazira Ports Pvt Ltd (AHPPL) will build the temporary infrastructure at Hazira port for Ghogha-Hazira Ro-Ro ferry service. Deendayal Port Trust (DPT) has issued the letter of acceptance to AHPPL in this regard.AHPPL operates a container terminal at Hazira. AHPPL quoted the lowest - Re one - (for 11 months) in the bids invited by Deendayal Port Trust (DPT) which is eventually going to operate the ferry service. Adani has agreed to provide us the temporary infrastructure in th...Read More

Gandhinagar: Year 1996 batch IAS officer, Mukesh Kumar, Vice Chairman and CEO of Gujarat Maritime Board has been transferred as new Municipal Commissioner of Amdavad Municipal Corporation replacing Vijay Nehra. Mukesh Kumar was appointed as incharge municipal commissioner of AMC on May 5. Mukesh Kumar has served as AMC Commissioner in the past too. Year 2001 batch IAS Vijay Nehra has been transferred to the post of Commissioner of Rural Development and Secretary, Panchayats, Rural Housing ...Read More