Interesting Statistics:-
Total Port Cargo Throughout
🇮🇳 - 1.82 Billion Tonnes
🇨🇳 - 18.17 Billion Tonnes
Container Port Throughput
🇮🇳 - 23.4M TEUs
🇨🇳 - 282.8 M TEUs
Merchant Fleet (Domestic)
🇮🇳 - 40.9M DWT
🇨🇳 - 338.8M DWT
Shipbuilding Output
🇮🇳 - 40,923 GT
🇨🇳 - 39.12 M GT
(Almost 960X)
Share of Global Shipbuilding
🇮🇳 - 0.06%
🇨🇳 - 55.01%
To dominate exports you need Ships and Ports
India presently has 8-10% of China's Port Capacity and a mere 0.1% of China's Shipbuilding output
So how exactly did India ever claim to replace China as a manufacturing destination?
For a product that exits China in 6 1/2 days
It would take 68 1/4 days to exit India with the same capacity
The Gap cannot be met even quarter of the way
India with a 25X surge in shipbuilding would still be only 2.5% of where China is
Difference between a System that looks out for People and Country and one that looks for VOTES every 5 years 😔😔😔😔😔
Schrodinger's democracy:
Propaganda in 2016: "India will overtake China very soon because it is a democracy and China is a dictatorship. Democracy is India's advantage."
Propaganda in 2026: "India cannot overtake China any time soon because it is a democracy and China is a dictatorship. Democracy is India's disadvantage."