<p>In Gratitude To,</p><p><b>Vasantbtbhai </b><span style="font-weight: 700;">(Vasant Jagjiwan Sheth) : </span>Pioneer of Tramp Shipping In India</p><p><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px;">INDIAN Shipping can be said to be as old as independent India herself. During the past 18 years, though Indian Shipping has made appreciable progress, the national tonnage having risen from 192,000 GRT in 1947 to about 1.5 million GRT today, literature on modern Indian Shipping has been almost con- spicuous by its absence. Dr. Sanklecha^s Tramp Shipping in India goes to fill this void and is a valuable addition to the scant literature in this field produced by Indian authors. Tramp Shipping is a vital and critical factor in the balanced growth of merchant shipping of developing countries like India. Dr. Sanklecha^s comprehensive and analytical presentation of this important aspect of Indian Shipping in the pages that follow is thus most welcome and while congratulating him for this valuable work, I commend it to the shipping world with great pleasure.</span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Google Sans", sans-serif;">About the Author<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Google Sans", sans-serif;">Author details will be added soon...<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><p><br></p>