Union Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways & AYUSH Sarbananda Sonowal will inaugurate National Technology Centre for Ports, Waterways and Coasts (NTCWPC), IIT M – Discovery Campus on April 24, 2023 at Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

Under the Sagarmala Programme, NTCWPC has been established in IIT Chennai at a price of Rs. 77 Crore. The institute acts as a technological arm of the Ministry and develops cutting-edge applied sciences and utility merchandise to offer options to numerous challenges confronted by Ports & Shipping Sector.

The Institute has world class capabilities for enterprise the 2D & 3D investigations of analysis and consultancy nature for the Port, Coastal, Waterway sector throughout all disciplines.  Modelling of Ocean, figuring out the Coastal & Estuarine Flows, Sediment transport and morpho dynamics, planning of Navigation and Maneuvering, estimation of Dredging & Siltation, consultancy in Port and Coastal Engineering – designing the Structures and Breakwaters, Autonomous Platforms & automobiles, Experimental & CFD modelling of stream & Hull interplay, Hydrodynamics of a number of hulls, Ocean renewable vitality coupled with port amenities are among the areas the place experience has already been developed for the good thing about the nation.

The Institute empowers Make in India and Aatmanirbhar Bharat initiatives of the nation within the sectors highlighted above.