Contents: Introduction/Adluri Subramanyam Raju. Part I: Maritime Infrastructure: A Background. 1. Developing India’s maritime infrastructure: recent policy initiatives/P.V. Rao. 2. India’s maritime infrastructure: an overview/Piyush Srivastava. 3. India’s maritime infrastructure: some reflections/Adluri Subramanyam Raju. 4. Modi Government’s strategy and action to improve India’s maritime structure/Madhumati Deshpande. Part II: Ports, Shipbuilding and Shipping. 5. India’s coastal security architecture and its infrastructure: an overview/P.K. Ghosh. 6. Enhancing coastal shipping for port-led development/Vasudha Chawla. 7. India and the World Container Ports/Jose Paul. 8. Maritime Infrastructure development and hinterland connectivity: imperatives for India’s Act east policy/M. Mayilvaganan. 9. Chennai as a maritime cluster: some reflections/C.S. Anuradha. Part III: Security of Maritime Infrastructure. 10. Nelsonian focus and a maritime mindedness towards maritime infrastructure development/Sudhir Pillai. 11. Indian ports and shipping: strategic and security imperatives/Udai Rao. 12. Security Imperatives for India’s future maritime infrastructure/Prakash Gopal. 13. India’s Maritime security challenges and preparedness: Post 26/11/Sanjay Kumar. Major policy measures to transform the maritime profile of peninsular India are underway. A new maritime India indeed is evident going by the constructive activities around the coasts. Development of Indian infrastructure is essential for country’s economic development and growth. As India adopted growth-led economic policy, serious plans are afoot to develop a strong and long-term transport infrastructure and logistics. With advancement in exploration technology, deep-sea mining, huge potential for exploration of hydrocarbons, petroleum, natural gas, rare earth metals, the demand for ports and shipping services is one of the important maritime strategies. Important policy moves are initiated by India in recent years to integrate shipping activities with inland transport networks. Sagarmala, Golden Quadrangle, East Coast Corridor are some of the latest policy decisions to build intermodal transportation for facilitating connectivity to the ports. Policy initiatives like the major India Port decision in 2016 would augment the Indian ship construction and modernization effort. There are other major issue areas of maritime infrastructure that merit urgent policy attention in India. Thirteen papers in this volume examine how India would address the various issues of India’s maritime infrastructure.