India and The Bahamas would enter into Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore the possibilities of cooperation in the area of cruise shipping, which is expected to give a fillip to cruise tourism in the country.
This was decided at a meeting between the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Public Service of the Bahamas Frederick Mitchell and the Union Shipping, Road Transport and Highways Minister Thiru T R Baalu here today.
As the Government is formulating a cruise shipping policy to make India an attractive cruise tourism destination with state-of-the-art infrastructure and other facilities at selected ports of the country, the MoU with Bahamas may give a fillip to this plan keeping in view the experience of Bahamas in this area.
Bahamas is a favoured cruise shipping destination in the world.
The two sides also discussed the possibility of having an MoU for engagement of more Indian sea-farers on the Bahamas Flagships. Other areas of cooperation in the shipping and port sector also came up for discussion.
The meeting was also attended by the Secretary (Shipping) A K Mohapatra, Secretary (Road Transport &Highways) L K Joshi besides other senior officials of the Ministry.
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