Article - 54 Week 11 Our Government & Our Shipping:

Article - 54 Week 11

Our Government & Our Shipping:

Even the Romans understood the pitfalls of democratic dizziness in timely & gritty decision making. They  empowered Fabius to wield absolute power and authority for six months to save Rome from the marauding Hannibal. He brought in a set of new & novel strategies and tacts to take on the enemy of a higher mite and skill.

Lets us look at ourselves in the shipping industry. We have a democratic system that does not understand its elbow from the toenails. A bureaucracy that is mostly self-serving and inward-looking. The significance of an important industry that would support this growing nation, is lost in this labyrinth of democratic chaos and a cock-eyed bureaucracy. 

How desperately we need a Fabius to save Indian shipping from the Global shipping market, especially from the flags of convenience and our own tax maze, is evident from its very decline. Our shipping Ministers talk about the port capacities - albeit occasionally - as synonyms for the entire Indian shipping industry. No one bothers to talk about the realities. Declining tonnage, a third rated coastal shipping, a laggard & expensive rail service, an infantile ship-building industry, a ship manning industry that smacks of inconsistency, and the other related droopy and sleepy services like repairs, supplies, bunkers, training, technical and commercial managements etc  are a testimony to the fact that we need a Fabius. A Fabius that lays the road ahead with a roadmap and goal to match the pace of a resurgent India and its shipping needs. It would be a defeatist strategy to seek shipping services from China on one hand and a state-owned and state-funded & gloated entity on the other. 

We need to lobby hard for a Fabius as our Shipping Minister or Secretary, who could understand and initiate the changes in the right direction and save us from this whirlpool of mediocrity.

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