India, Sept. 15 -- Seven out of 12 major state-run ports in the country have shifted to an indigenously developed vessel tracking and management system, a top official has said.

"We are liberating the major ports of foreign software. All the major ports in India have been using vessel traffic management software from foreign countries, mostly European. But today we have an indigenously-developed software developed by NTCPWC (National Technology Centre for Ports Waterways and Coasts), that is the technology arm of the Ministry of Ports along with IIT Madras. They have already developed an indigenous software. This committee is proud to say that seven out of 12 major ports are working on this indigenous software," Goa's Mormugao Port chair...