IWT & Tourism

Investments in IWT

Sesa Goa Jetty

Dempo Jetty
CCL Jetty
Rajaram Bandekar Jetty

Dempo Jetty

Sesa Jetty
DMC Jetty
SFI Jetty

Betim Fishing Jetty VSD Jetty

RND Shipyard OGL / RBSM
VMS Jetty
CCL Jetty

Panjim Minor Dempo

Port Shipyard

N.I.O.
Dona Paula
Water-sports

MPT Limits
MPT
WISL
SWPL SMIL Jetty
SFI Jetty
GSL
TPL Jetty
Cortalim Fishing Jetty Sesa Goa
Ratna Engineering GNA Jetty
Daniel Shipyard Salgaonkar Shipyard
Vipul Shipyard CCL Jetty
Marman Shipyard
Pinky Shipyard G.N. Agarwal Yard
Anderson Marine Sardessai Shipyard
Local “Workshops” Raymond Yard

Nigel Shipyard
Cabral Shipyard
Delta Shipyard
Super Service Yard
West Coast Yard Chowgule Shipyard
Vijay Marine Vijay Marine
Sahyadri Sealine Siddhivinayak Yard
Panth Dock
New Year Marine
Shirodkar Shipyard

Heavy Private Sector Investment in IWT in Goa

IWT Waterways

Act as a tourism asset in their own right.

Provide a link between existing/new tourist

attractions.

Support the holiday industry through water-based

sports & recreation activities.

Enhance the environment and attract increased

visitor activity.

Contribute to the tourism product in the broadest

sense by enhancing the environment in urban and
rural areas, attracting increased overnight and day
trip activity.
Leisure & Recreation, Tourism and Sport

The waterways are an important national tourism

resource - they enhance the attractiveness of both
urban and rural areas, they link places of interest, and
they generate tourism in their own right.

In many areas of the UK, the inland waterways are

now used predominantly for leisure and recreation.
– There are about 100,000 licensed boats on the
waterways and the system supports a holiday
hire-boat industry of about 3,000 craft.
– Rowing, canoeing and sailing are widespread.
– Angling is very popular - some 300,000 people
fish British Waterways' canals.

Goa’s Waterways have enormous unexploited

potential as a tourism destination & asset
Foreshore Area

Much larger numbers of people use the waterways

foreshore areas for informal recreation activities such
as walking, cycling, bird watching and exploring the
waterway heritage.

It is estimated that 165 million leisure visits are made

each year to British Waterways' canals and rivers
alone.
Environmental Tourism

The inland waterways make a valuable contribution

to the quality of the landscape and provide a rich and
diverse environmental resource. British Waterways'
canals include over 100 sites of special scientific
interest (SSSI) and 800 more sites designated of local
nature conservation interest.

The waterways provide a sanctuary for a wide

variety of plants and animals, some of which have
become rare elsewhere due to loss of their more
natural habitats.

Goa’s Waterways encompass a unique environment

and nature resource
 Goa Cruises

River Cruises
The Mandovi river is a prefect blend to conduct cruise tours.
The river cruises in Goa are generally theme based cruises
with live cultural programmes performed by cultural troupes
and can be categorized into three types - daytime, sunset and
moonlight.

• Sunset/Sundown Cruises
As the name suggests, the sunset cruise sets sail as
the sun dips in the horizon leaving a crimson sky.

• Full Moon Cruise/Special Cruise

The cruise is conducted on full
moon nights when the moon
sparkles in all its glory
Dinghy Sailing

Dinghy sailing provides for a relaxed outing in

the seas. Dinghies are 15-feet long crafts that
easily accommodate three to four people.
Though The thrill of windsurfing is missing,
dinghy sailing is perfect for families wanting to
surf the seas at a leisurely pace.
Parasailing
One of the exciting water sports, Parasailing means floating
high in the sky with a parasail. The parasail is usually
attached to a speedboat with the help of a long rope. As the
speedboat traverses the waters, the parasail lifts the person
into the air.

Windsurfing
A surface water sport, using a sailboard attached to a sail,
the surfer skims the waves by precariously balancing himself
to the changing currents of wind and water.

Water Skiing
To ski on water while being towed by motor boat
As these high speed boats skids through the waves,
one feels a rush of adrenaline up the spine.
• Banana boat ride

• Bumper boat ride

• Water Scooter

• Floating hotels & casinos

• Inland cruises for crocodile

watching

• Dolphin Cruises
 Scuba Diving

The Diving Season in Goa is

from October to May.

The Diving Trips are around Grande

Island and Sao Gorge Island.

The marine species are numerous with lots of hard

corals and one can enjoy a very relaxing dive with lots
to see

There is a very old metallic shipwreck around the Island.

The dive sites have different names, but are all located
around these two islands
 Moving Forward

The Following has to/could

be done
 Dredging

Dredging is an excavation activity

or operation usually carried out at
least partly underwater, in shallow
seas or fresh water areas with the
purpose of gathering up bottom
sediments and disposing of them at
a different location, mostly to keep
waterways navigable. A dredge is
a device for scraping or sucking the
seabed, used for dredging. A
dredger is a ship or boat equipped
with a dredge
Sports Submarines

The latest craze, which carry

people to depth of 35 to 50
Mts to see coral , Wrecks etc
in natural habitat.

There are several

wrecks from
Portuguese times off
Goa coast which are
inaccessible to normal
person. Sports
submarines will be
successful as it would
give people an
opportunity to people
who cannot dive.
 Marinas

A Marina is a port where

leisure boats and yachts are
kept in the water and where
services to the needs of
recreational boating are
found.

The marina may have re-fueling, washing and repair

facilities, small stores and restaurants catering to the
needs of the boaters

Many marinas are owned and operated by a private

club, especially yacht clubs — but also as private
enterprises or municipal facilities. They are most
frequently located along the banks of rivers connecting
to lakes or seas
 Hovercrafts and Jet
boats

These are very versatile vehicles

in waters (also land in case of
Hovercraft) and could be an
excellent new business prospect

A jetboat is a boat propelled by a

jet of water ejected from the back
of the craft. Unlike a powerboat or
motorboat that uses a propeller in
the water behind the boat, a
jetboat draws the water from
under the boat into a pump-jet
inside the boat, then expels it
through a nozzle at the stern.
House Boats & Sports
fishing

House boats could be

constructed and
operated in hinterland
areas. Some areas can
be developed as water
parks for bird watching
and sports fishing
Looking Outwards

Looking from the waterway outwards as well as from

Land to Water provides the opportunity to:

– explore and optimise the “added value” of the

water space so that it becomes a leisure resource
and facility in its own right;

– incorporate the foreshore areas and the water

space in the development scheme so as to
encourage greater use of the water space and
surrounding public spaces;

– explore the range of water based uses that any

particular water space can support, as well as to
identify the land based implications of such uses;

– identify a balanced mix of mutually supporting

uses on land and water.

Of enormous importance is the foreshore area and

its integration with the water way arteries
– Isolated jetties presently provide very poor land
to water linkages.
– An Act declaring maybe 10 m of riverbank as
part of the IWT system may be necessary
W>L & L>W Approach

In order for waterways to contribute successfully to

the achievement of sustainable development, it is
crucial to:

– treat a waterway as a “multi-functional space” as

well as an artery;

– look from the “waterway outwards” and not just

from the land to water;
Goa Development Models

Model I : State Government

– Existing scenario: stakeholder’s impression that

GoG not in a position to develop & maintain
water ways
– GoG should provide details of revenue generated

Model II: PPP Development

Model III: National Waterways

– Central government responsible for facility
creation & maintenance
– Revenue charges by Central Government
– Stakeholders appear in favor of declaration as
National Waterways ??
Model I - The State Government

Role of State Government

– Policing Function vs. Development Role

– Enforcement Role vs. Nurturing Function

Examples – Dredging Fiasco in River Sal as dredging

is almost unknown in Goa’s IWT

Structure of Department does not facilitate IWT

development and policy implementation towards
growth of IWT

Development in IWT till date have been Private

Sector Lead with State Government playing a “Catch
Up” role
Model II – PPP Model

Existing developments already Private Sector driven

Existing Revenue Stream available

Private Sector has ability and inclination to invest in

IWT but unclear river use policies are a deterrent

High scope in Tourism related investment & revenue

generation in addition to IWT transportation sector
Model III – Central Government

IWT has received large funding in both the ninth and tenth
five-year plans but has not been able to effectively utilize it
(Planning Commission 2001).

IWAI in principle—but not in practice—commits to

maintaining a year-round draft of 2 m along the National
Waterways (Planning Commission 2001). The deficiency
could be overcome either by justifying the cost on the basis
of assessed commercial traffic potential or by the operators
planning for a realistic draft of 1.5 m.

The potential of IWT is sufficient to justify a national body

such as the IWAI with a sharp role in nurturing the sector,
but its sustenance needs to be judged contextually for each
waterway or waterway system.

Given a sector turnover of about Rs 110 crore annually, the

sector investment of Rs 308 crore (Rs 1701 crore proposed) in
the Ninth Plan, and in the Tenth Plan of Rs 5665 crore
(proposed) does not make commercial or economic sense.
Existence of a driving cargo stream of sufficient volume is
required to justify large investments.
Asian Development Bank ; India Resident Mission ; INRM Policy Brief No. 13; Viability of Inland Water; Transport in India;
Narayan Rangaraj and G. Raghuram; 2007

IWAI has not exactly been an enormous success and its

ability to effectively contribute to IWT development in
Goa remains a doubt
The Requirements

What are our Objectives in IWT Development? There

must be a clear policy and mission statement.

To begin, an inventory of existing infrastructure and

transport must be prepared as the base of a sound
development program.

This inventory should include quantitative aspects

(e.g. minimum depths, width, and vertical clearance
of waterways, marking and minimum equipment
with navigational aids, and number of vessels), as
well as qualitative aspects (e.g. the state of
infrastructure and the fleet, transport performance).

River specific development plans must be drawn up

and provided to the stakeholders, with clear
objectives, governance models, revenue models etc

Investment policy & plan for improvements in inter-

modal connections between cost-effective inland
waterway transportation, faster railways, and more
elastic road transportation will significantly improve
the efficiency of IWT and the overall transport
system. This policy must be articulated.
Forward Path

Set up a Task Force to carry out the following Tasks:

– Create an Inventory & Database of the existing

Waterways on the lines indicated earlier

– Clearly enumerate the obstacles to development

of Goa’s Water ways

– Evaluate scheme to integrate foreshore with

water arteries & river system

– Determine alternative Governance Models

– Establish Alternate Revenue Models integrating

transportation & tourism potentials

– Provide complete Business Development Plan

with clear cut recommendations for Goa’s Inland
Water Transport Sector within a max period of six
months.
Conclusion

• Goa has earned the reputation of being one of the

best tourist destination in the World.

• We have to thrive to improve our rating by

continuously improving the Infrastructure.

• Goa should have a well equipped Water Police for

patrolling the Inland water ways to reduce
notoriety.
• What would be the implications on operations
(Timings of operations, Types of vessels,
The size of vessels, The number of vessels,
Backwater cruises etc) in Goa, if the waterways are
made National waterways?

• Govt should restructure the existing policy and

make it more comprehensive/transparent.