The Monash University, Melbourne, and CPPR with support from the Department of Foreign Trade (DFAT), Australia, will work on a year-long project to explore maritime cooperation in the Indo–Pacific region. The project focuses on three thematic areas:

  1. Trade Connectivity and Maritime Transport: Smart Ports and Digital Supply Chains;
  2. Marine Ecology Strategies (with an emphasis on marine plastic litter and debris regulation and waste minimization models and strategies in the Bay of Bengal); and
  3. Convergences between the Visions, Outlooks and Initiatives of the Indo–Pacific countries/groupings, viz. ASEAN, Australia and India. 

Scholars from India, Australia and other countries in the region will present research papers on the thematic areas. The papers were discussed at a two-day conference held in Kochi, attended by the authors, other subject-matter scholars, government officials, business stakeholders and civil society organizations (CSOs). A high-level task force constituted as part of this program will guide the research papers. The papers will be updated to reflect the discussions at the conference and will be published and disseminated among the relevant stakeholders.

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