Union Minister for Ports, Shipping and Waterways Sarbananda Sonowal inaugurated the Discovery Campus of the National Technology Centre for Ports, Waterways and Coasts at IITM, Chennai, Tamil Nadu. The centre aims at enabling research and development for the marine sector enabling solutions towards achieving the ultimate goal of building a robust marine industry in the country. It has world class capabilities for undertaking the 2D and 3D investigations of research and consultancy nature for the Port, Coastal, and Waterways sector across all disciplines. Modelling of ocean, determining the coastal and estuarine flows, sediment transport and morph dynamics, planning of navigation and manoeuvring, estimation of dredging and siltation, consultancy in port and coastal engineering designing the structures and breakwaters, autonomous platforms and vehicles, experimental and CFD modelling of flow and hull interaction, hydrodynamics of multiple hulls, ocean renewable energy coupled with port facilities are some of the areas where NTCPWC has already contributed to optimise capability of marine sector of India.