- To
initiate, foster and maintain investigation and research into the
best means and methods, practices of conducting shipping business,
the problems involved and their most satisfactory solutions and
in particular to study the economics of operation in the various
international trade routes and India's share in the different trades.
- To
extend, increase and disseminate knowledge and exchange information
and ideas in regard to all questions connected with shipping and
to assist and further in all practicable ways the development and
improvements of shipping industry in the national interest.
- To
create and provide facilities for education in commercial, technical
and other aspects of shipping business and all other allied subjects
and to take all steps for spread of shipping knowledge and to find
and support establishments for this purpose.
- To
devise and impose means for testing the qualifications of candidates
for admission to membership of the Institute by examination or by
any other actual or practical tests and to grant certificates of
qualifications/diploma to successful candidates.
- To
exercise professional supervision over the members of the Institute
and other members of the profession and to frame and establish rules
for observance in matters pertaining to professional practices.
- To
hold conferences, meetings, seminars, refresher courses for discussion
of shipping business in all its phases and for delivery of lectures
and to collect, collate and publish information of service/interest
to members of the profession.
- To
establish/develop relations with shipping organisations in other
countries and in international shipping organisations and to seek
affiliations with other educational/social organisations in shipping.
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