The Minister of Civil Aviation, Suresh Prabhu, said in September 2018 that the government would invest about $60 billion in new airports and modernising existing airports in the next ten years. According to the government, another $21 billion worth port development projects have been identified under the Sagarmala project, which aims to build 12 major and 200 non-major ports located along the country’s 7,500-kilometre coastline.