Ocean Centres India
Ocean Centres India is a multi-stakeholder platform driving India's transition to a safer, more sustainable ocean economy, fostering dialogue, responsible business practices, and enforceable standards across four priority areas: Shipping and Ports, Fisheries and Aquaculture, Offshore Renewables, and Finance and Investment. Between September 2025 and March 2026, it organised eight multi-stakeholder workshops across India's coastal states. This report presents the challenges, issues, and solutions identified, along with short-term and medium- to long-term action areas for each priority sector.
Key Findings Report
Ocean Centres India by the numbers
Workshop participations by sector
1,526 total"Others" includes individuals who participated without representing a specific organisation or sector.
More than 1,500 participations across eight workshops in India's coastal states — over a third of all national-workshop participations network-wide — with private companies (532), academia (240) and government (210) all present at scale.
75 organisations and 3 individuals have formally joined Ocean Centres India, giving the centre an institutional footing for the Extension Phase and its National Action Plan.
Three things you need to know about Ocean Centres India
Safety is the core of sustainability: a sustainable blue economy is impossible without safety. Ocean Centres India promotes a safety lens integrating occupational health, resilient infrastructure and risk-based decision-making, leaving no worker or community behind.
Strategic focus: the initiative targets four high-impact areas — green ports and shipping decarbonisation; safety and climate resilience in fisheries and aquaculture; offshore renewables; and blue finance and investment security.
Multi-tiered engagement: stakeholders can engage as Members (influencing policy and accessing Blue Finance guidance), Knowledge Partners (contributing research and technical expertise), or Ally Partners (amplifying the mission through their networks, including as Ocean Centres Ambassadors).
The key achievements, the full set of safety challenges and recommendations, and the workshop-by-workshop evidence are in the Ocean Centres India report (PDF).
