Visakhapatnam: After successfully hosting the International Fleet Review (IFR) in February 2016, the City of Destiny Visakhapatnam is gearing up to host another International Naval event ‘MILAN’ in March 2020.
The preparations were reviewed at the Eastern Naval Command (ENC) by Chief of Staff Eastern Naval Command (ENC) Vice Admiral SN Ghormade on January 7.
The review meeting saw an overwhelming and positive response from the civil administrators and stakeholder organisations, with participation by G Srijana Commissioner GVMC, Rajiv Kumar Meena, City Police Commissioner, A Srinivas Secretary VMRDA, RN Hari Krishna, Chief Mechanical Engineer VPT, representatives from HSL, HPCL, IOCL, EPCL, Coromandel Fertilizers Ltd and Senior Police Officers from Special Branch, Law & Order and Traffic, a defence official said.
A detailed presentation to apprise the attendees of the planned activities of MILAN was conducted.
The review meeting was followed by site visits to various venues by the Nodal officers from the Navy and the attendees representing stakeholder organizations towards drawing out time bound action plans.
MILAN 2020 is a multilateral naval exercise aimed to enhance professional interaction between friendly foreign navies and learn from each other’s strengths and best practices in the maritime domain.
The Exercise with the theme ‘Synergy Across the Seas’ would provide an excellent opportunity for Operational Commanders of friendly foreign navies to interact with each other in areas of mutual interest.
Of the 41 navies invited, confirmations from over 30 navies have been received towards their participation in MILAN 2020, the spokesperson added.
