Rudra Jaiswal, B.A. LL.B., Amity University Madhya Pradesh, Gwalior, India Sanskriti Sinha, B.A. LL.B., Amity University Madhya Pradesh, Gwalior, India ABSTRACT India’s dependence on the sea has never been in doubt; the currency of its shipping law has been. For sixty-seven years the sector was governed by the Merchant Shipping Act, 1958, a statute descended from Victorian British legislation and swollen by amendment into a text of over 560 sections. The Merchant Shipping Act, 2025, assented...