Coastal Shipping Act, 2025
Bare Act · 2025
An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to regulation of coastal shipping, promote coasting trade and encourage domestic participation therein, to ensure that India is equipped with a coastal fleet, owned and operated by the citizens of India for its national security and commercial needs, and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
- Act number
- 20 of 2025
- Enacted
- 9 August 2025
- Contents
- 42 sections · 6 chapters
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Contents
Chapter I — Preliminary
Chapter II — Prohibition And Licence For Coasting Trade
- Section 3 – Prohibition on coasting trade
- Section 4 – Licence for coasting trade
- Section 5 – Suspension, revocation or modification of licence
- Section 6 – Reporting requirements (preview)
- Section 7 – Licence to be produced for port clearance (preview)
Chapter III — National Coastal And Inland Shipping Strategic Plan And National Database Of Coastal Shipping
- Section 8 – National Coastal and Inland Shipping Strategic Plan (preview)
- Section 9 – National Database of Coastal Shipping (preview)
Chapter IV — Licencing Of Chartered Vessels Other Than For Coasting Trade
- Section 10 – Application of Chapter (preview)
- Section 11 – Requirement of licence by chartered vessels (preview)
- Section 12 – Suspension, revocation or modification of licence granted to chartered vessels (preview)
- Section 13 – Licence granted to chartered vessel to be returned when ceases to be valid (preview)
- Section 14 – No port clearance without production of licence (preview)
Chapter V — Offences And Penalties
- Section 15 – Punishment for participating in coasting trade in contravention of section 3 (preview)
- Section 16 – Punishment for participating in coasting trade after licence ceases to be valid (preview)
- Section 17 – Punishment for taking vessel to sea in contravention of section 11 (preview)
- Section 18 – Punishment for failure to furnish information or furnishing false information after notice (preview)
- Section 19 – Punishment for violation of order of detention (preview)
- Section 20 – Punishment for illegally detaining person authorised to detain vessel (preview)
- Section 21 – Penalty for reporting false or misleading information (preview)
- Section 22 – Penalty for violation of conditions of licence (preview)
- Section 23 – Penalty for non-compliance of direction of Director-General (preview)
- Section 24 – Penalty for non-compliance with order of Central Government (preview)
- Section 25 – General provision for contravention or non-compliance (preview)
- Section 26 – Compounding of certain offences (preview)
- Section 27 – Special provision regarding punishment (preview)
- Section 28 – Offences by companies (preview)
- Section 29 – Power to enforce detention of vessel (preview)
- Section 30 – Adjudicating officer for imposition of penalty, appeal and procedure therefor (preview)
- Section 31 – Notice in respect of foreign vessel (preview)
- Section 32 – Place of trial and jurisdiction of court (preview)
- Section 33 – Service of documents (preview)
Chapter VI — Miscellaneous
- Section 34 – Power to delegate (preview)
- Section 35 – Power of Director-General to give directions and seek information (preview)
- Section 36 – Power of Central Government to issue directions (preview)
- Section 37 – Power to exempt (preview)
- Section 38 – Protection of action taken in good faith (preview)
- Section 39 – Power of Central Government to make rules (preview)
- Section 40 – Laying of rules and notifications before Parliament (preview)
- Section 41 – Power to remove difficulties (preview)
- Section 42 – Repeal and savings (preview)