{"id":358043,"date":"2026-03-13T15:28:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T09:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=358043"},"modified":"2026-03-13T15:28:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T09:58:45","slug":"national-shipping-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/national-shipping-board\/","title":{"rendered":"National Shipping Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News: <\/strong>The government held an interaction with the <strong data-start=\"23\" data-end=\"64\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">National Shipping Board<\/span><\/span><\/strong> to discuss challenges in the shipping sector and ways to strengthen maritime capacity.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>About National Shipping Board<\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_358044\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-358044\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-358044\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/4D-OLvu_400x400.jpg?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/4D-OLvu_400x400.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/4D-OLvu_400x400.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/4D-OLvu_400x400.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-358044\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: X<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0is a <\/span><b>statutory body under the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways, Government of India.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Established in:<\/strong> It was <\/span><b>established in 1959<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> under <\/span><b>Section 4 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1958<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>It is the <strong>highest advisory body<\/strong> on matters related to Indian shipping<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Function:<\/strong> Its main function is to <\/span><b>advise the Government of India on shipping matters and maritime development<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Chairman and Tenure: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>Chairman and other members serve for a period of two years<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Composition of the Board: Six members are elected by Parliament<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><b>Four from the Lok Sabha<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <strong>t<\/strong><\/span><b>wo from the Rajya Sabha<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>Central Government can appoint up to sixteen additional members<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to represent:\u00a0 <\/span><b>Central Government, Shipowners and Seamen and other related interests<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> considered important by the government<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>One member is nominated by the Central Government as the Chairman<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Board must include <\/span><b>an equal number of representatives from shipowners and seamen<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The government held an interaction with the National Shipping Board to discuss challenges in the shipping sector and ways to strengthen maritime capacity. About National Shipping Board It\u00a0is a statutory body under the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways, Government of India.\u00a0 Established in: It was established in 1959 under Section 4 of the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/national-shipping-board\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">National Shipping Board<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1760,12039],"tags":[11872,3590],"class_list":["post-358043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-polity-and-nation","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}