R.Sreenivas senior advisor Rear Admiral of Hindustan Shipyard Ltd said that green ports would be leading the maritime sector, according to release here by Super Computing Consortium of India (SCCI). he presented the case study of ongoing efforts towards creating green ports by Hindustan Shipyard, Visakhapatnam. A key component of green ports is the use of electric tugs in ports. Gopi Kumar Bulusu, Chair at SCCI, estimated that over the next five to 10 years around 50 such tugs are needed in Visakhapatnam alone and the national demand is well above 1,000 tugs. The market for these exceeds ₹1.0 trillion over the 10 year period. He said that Green ports is a ₹50,000 crore opportunity for Andhra Pradesh in the next five years.