Ministry of Foreign Affairs Singapore

Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Lawrence Wong is on an Official Visit to India from 2 to 4 September 2025.

On 4 September 2025, Prime Minister Wong met Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The leaders welcomed the sturdy progress in bilateral cooperation following Prime Minister Modi’s Official Visit to Singapore in September 2024 and the third India-Singapore Ministerial Roundtable in August 2025.

  The Prime Ministers mentioned methods to reinforce cooperation in forward-looking areas similar to sustainability, digitalisation, connectivity, expertise improvement, superior manufacturing and semiconductors, house, and biotechnology. Prime Minister Wong inspired either side to strengthen cross-border information flows and capital markets collaboration. The Prime Ministers reaffirmed the significance of strengthening people-to-people exchanges, together with between our civil providers by means of scholarships and examine visits.

  They additionally exchanged views on regional and worldwide developments, together with the necessity to promote financial integration, strengthen multilateralism and ASEAN-India relations, and uphold the rules-based worldwide order. 

  Prime Minister Wong and Prime Minister Modi adopted the Roadmap for the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership (CSP) between Singapore and India (at Annex A). The CSP will set the imaginative and prescient and course for the subsequent part of bilateral relations and deepen cooperation within the areas of: (a) Economic Cooperation; (b) Skills Development; (c) Digitalisation; (d) Sustainability; (e) Connectivity; (f) Healthcare and Medicine; (g) People-to-People and Cultural Exchanges; and (h) Defence and Security Cooperation. Both leaders agreed that these areas had been crucial for addressing shared challenges and securing long-term resilience in an more and more complicated world surroundings. 

  Following their assembly, the Prime Ministers held a Joint Press Conference. They witnessed the change of the CSP Roadmap in addition to 5 Memoranda of Understanding (particulars at Annex B), and just about inaugurated Phase 2 of PSA Mumbai (Bharat Mumbai Container Terminal) (particulars of PSA Mumbai at Annex C). Prime Minister Modi additionally hosted a Banquet Lunch in Prime Minister Wong’s honour.

 

  Earlier within the go to, Prime Minister Wong visited the Raj Ghat to pay tribute to Mahatma Gandhi, obtained calls by Minister of Health and Family Welfare and Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers Jagat Prakash Nadda, Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs Nirmala Sitharaman, and Minister of External Affairs Dr Subrahmanyam Jaishankar. Prime Minister Wong additionally engaged Indian enterprise leaders at a roundtable occasion and met abroad Singaporeans in New Delhi at a reception to rejoice the 60^th anniversary of Singapore-India diplomatic relations and Singapore’s 60^th 12 months of independence.

 

Prime Minister Wong will name on President of the Republic of India Droupadi Murmu later this afternoon. He will even obtain separate calls by Minister of Education Dharmendra Pradhan and National Security Advisor Ajit Doval this afternoon. Prime Minister Wong departs for Singapore tonight.

 

 

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MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS

SINGAPORE

4 SEPTEMBER 2025

 

 

Annex A – Joint Statement on Singapore-India CSP Roadmap

 

 

JOINT STATEMENT ON THE ROADMAP FOR THE COMPREHENSIVE STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP

BETWEEN INDIA AND SINGAPORE

ON THE OCCASION OF THE OFFICIAL VISIT OF HIS EXCELLENCY MR. LAWRENCE WONG,
PRIME MINISTER OF THE REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE, TO THE REPUBLIC OF INDIA

 

1. At the invitation of H.E. Shri Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of the Republic of India, H.E. Mr. Lawrence Wong, Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore, paid an Official Visit to India from 2 to 4 September 2025.

 

2. On 4 September 2025, Prime Minister Modi and Prime Minister Wong held wide-ranging discussions. Thereafter, the leaders witnessed the change of assorted Memoranda of Understanding. Prime Minister Wong attended the Banquet Lunch  hosted by Prime Minister Modi. He additionally known as on President of India, H.E. Smt Droupadi Murmu. Prime Minister Wong additionally visited Raj Ghat to pay floral tributes to Mahatma Gandhi. External Affairs Minister, Dr. S. Jaishankar known as on Prime Minister Wong.

 

3. This 12 months marks the 60^th anniversary of the institution of diplomatic relations between the 2 international locations. Both Prime Ministers acknowledged India and Singapore’s lengthy custom of friendship based mostly on belief and mutual respect, and in depth cooperation throughout a variety of areas. They reviewed and expressed satisfaction over the progress within the bilateral relationship, together with by means of the current high-level engagements such because the Official Visit of Prime Minister Modi to Singapore in September 2024, the State Visit of the President of the Republic of Singapore H.E. Mr. Tharman Shanmugaratnam to India in January 2025 and the third India-Singapore Ministerial Roundtable in New Delhi in August 2025. The ties have developed into an all-round cooperation, together with within the areas of political, financial, safety, expertise, schooling, people-to-people and cultural hyperlinks.

 

4. Both Prime Ministers recalled the settlement to raise bilateral relations to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership (CSP), throughout Prime Minister Modi’s Official Visit to Singapore in September 2024. Building on this, they agreed to undertake a forward-looking and substantive roadmap for the CSP that will set the imaginative and prescient and course for the subsequent part of bilateral relations, and deepen cooperation in eight areas: (i) Economic Cooperation; (ii) Skills Development; (iii) Digitalisation; (iv) Sustainability; (v) Connectivity; (vi) Healthcare and Medicine; (vii) People-to-People and Cultural Exchanges; and (viii) Defence and Security Cooperation.

 

ROADMAP FOR THE CSP

 

Economic Cooperation: Strengthening Economic Ties and Enhancing Collaboration in New and Forward-Looking Areas

 

• Deepen bilateral commerce and entry to markets, together with by means of constructing on the Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA), and bearing in mind each international locations’ commerce priorities by means of the annual Meeting of Joint Working Group on Trade and Investments;

 

• Both sides will proceed to interact in dialogue and make progress on initiation of the Third Review of CECA and obtain substantial Review of the ASEAN India Trade in Goods Agreement (AITIGA) in 2025;

 

• Support the expansion of India’s semiconductor trade and ecosystem together with by means of cooperation below the India-Singapore Semiconductor Policy Dialogue; facilitating partnerships with Singapore corporations; advancing resilient semiconductor provide chains; exploring mutually useful analysis and improvement collaborations; selling workforce improvement; and inspiring business-to-business cooperation by means of data sharing, change of finest practices, direct investments, and potential partnerships between Indian and Singapore corporations;

 

• Jointly develop sustainable industrial parks and next-generation industrial parks with superior manufacturing capabilities, together with by means of facilitating ventures and partnerships, government-to-government cooperation in data sharing, capability coaching, inexperienced requirements implementation, grasp planning, and promotion;

 

• Jointly improve India-Singapore capital market connectivity and construct on the shut collaboration on joint initiatives such because the NSE-IFSC-SGX GIFT Connect;

 

• Strengthen partnerships and collaboration between the enterprise communities in India and Singapore, particularly in areas that complement the bilateral cooperation agenda, and deepen business-to-business engagement similar to by means of the  India-Singapore Business Roundtable (ISBR);

 

• Promote joint collaboration within the house sector, together with between the Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre (IN-SPACe) and the Office for Space Technology & Industry, Singapore and each international locations’ house industries; in house coverage and legislation; and in analysis and improvement actions in areas of mutual curiosity similar to Earth commentary and satellite tv for pc communication applied sciences and functions;

 

• Enhance authorized and dispute decision cooperation, the place attainable, with a view to addressing the companies’ wants of either side, by means of the involvement of the related Ministries of India and Singapore;

 

Skills Development: Partnering in Skills Development and Capacity Building

 

• Jointly develop a National Centre of Excellence in Chennai, Tamil Nadu on Advanced Manufacturing, which is able to give attention to boosting trade connection and collaborating on requirements in curriculum, train-the-trainers, growing a expertise certification framework, and periodic evaluation and evaluation to take care of high quality; and collaborating with the non-public sector to develop talent centres in sectors of mutual curiosity, together with Advanced Manufacturing, Aviation and Maintenance Repair and Overhaul (MRO);

 

• Promote cooperation in functionality improvement in Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) and expertise improvement; collaboration within the discipline of technical schooling between Higher Education institutes; change of data and finest practices with regard to reskilling and upskilling the workforce; pupil and employees exchanges; facilitation of pupil internships and school industrial attachments, and trainer coaching. Both sides will set up a Joint Working Group to facilitate and evaluation progress throughout the schooling and expertise improvement agenda;

 

• Build on sturdy current collaboration between the Singapore skilling ecosystem and India, to assist state degree skilling cooperation with Singapore, such because the Singapore-Assam Nursing Talent Skills Cooperation;

 

Digitalisation: Deepening Cooperation  in Digital and Financial Technologies

 

• Strengthen Digital Finance and Fintech cooperation between India and Singapore, in addition to cyber safety and capital market linkages, together with by means of the  Fintech  Joint Working Group; 

 

• Share experiences and change technical experience in digital options, and discover their implementation by means of pilot tasks;

 

• Enhance collaboration between start-up and Small and Medium Enterprise ecosystems of either side with the goal of facilitating partnerships within the digital area;

 

• Strengthen cooperation between stakeholders on either side on cyber insurance policies, CERT-CERT data change, cyber safety capability constructing and cybersecurity associated points;

 

• Regarding GIFT City-Singapore cooperation, officers from related companies and regulatory authorities in India and Singapore to convene a Joint Working Group to kickstart discussions on the framework in addition to to establish and trial potential use circumstances similar to information varieties the place the framework might apply to;

 

• Explore collaboration alternatives in crucial and rising applied sciences, to advertise innovation, inclusive and sustainable financial development; below the present Joint Working Group on Digital Technologies;

 

• Explore cooperation on Artificial Intelligence by means of the sharing of finest practices for growing AI-ready information units and constructing data-driven AI use circumstances in sectors similar to agriculture, well being care, and schooling;

 

• Expand and maximise the potential of paperless and safe cross-border service provider and private funds utilizing the UPI-PayNow Linkage  as a basis;

 

• Strengthen the adoption of the TradeBelief framework between India and Singapore for interoperable e-Bills of Lading and facilitating extra dependable and safe commerce paperwork;

 

Sustainability: Exploring Collaboration Opportunities in Sustainable Development and Green Trade

 

• Step up cooperation in ongoing and new areas together with inexperienced hydrogen and ammonia manufacturing and commerce;

 

• Explore cooperation within the space of city water administration;

 

• Explore avenues of cooperation within the civil nuclear area;

 

• Work in the direction of a mutually useful bilateral cooperation framework below Article 6.2 of the Paris Agreement to handle the problem of local weather change;

 

• Collaborate on inexperienced and sustainable initiatives in related multilateral frameworks such because the International Solar Alliance and Global Biofuels Alliance, of which Singapore is a member;

 

• Deepen cooperation on meals safety similar to by means of selling the exports of meals merchandise between India and Singapore and to 3rd international locations, together with by exploring country-level accreditation for choose exports;

 

Connectivity: Expanding Maritime and Aviation Connectivity

 

• Support the institution of an India-Singapore Green and Digital Shipping Corridor (GDSC) between the Port of Singapore and ports in India to deepen maritime connectivity and work in the direction of the institution of a inexperienced maritime gas hall;

 

• Deepen ecosystem collaboration in India’s rising aviation and aerospace MRO sectors  by means of the partnerships between Indian and Singapore corporations in these sectors, together with the sharing of Singapore’s experience and the supply of  upskilling alternatives;

 

• Both Prime Ministers acknowledged the expansion in journey demand between the 2 international locations, and inspired the civil aviation authorities of each international locations to debate increasing the bilateral Air Services Agreement to reinforce air connectivity;

 

• Explore partnerships in capability constructing and airport improvement, together with the change of expertise and experience in airport consultancy and administration providers for Indian airports;

 

• Both sides dedicated to enhancing cooperation on  Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) in the direction of selling cleaner and sustainable vitality options within the aviation sector;

 

Healthcare and Medicine: Strengthening Healthcare and Medicine Cooperation

 

• Deepen collaboration in well being and drugs fields below the MOU on Cooperation within the Field of Health and Medicine, together with human useful resource improvement, digital well being intervention and illness surveillance, maternal and baby well being and vitamin, well being coverage, with a give attention to entry to medical merchandise and regulatory facilitation of collaborative analysis, combatting communicable and non-communicable illness, well being security and safety, and analysis and innovation;

 

• Regularly convene the Joint Working Group on Health Cooperation;

 

• Deepen cooperation within the space of nursing expertise improvement by means of the change of data and data in nursing expertise coaching, and enhancing the employability in Singapore,  which is presently happening below the MoU between Singapore and Assam on Nursing Talent Skills Cooperation;

 

• Deepen ongoing collaboration in Collaborative Industrial Research & Development and assist new joint analysis tasks within the space of Digital Health/Medical Technologies;

 

People-to-People and Cultural Exchanges: Supporting People-to-People and Cultural Linkages

 

• Further strengthen the long-standing social, cultural and people-to-people linkages between India and Singapore together with by means of exploring cooperation throughout areas of mutual curiosity in maritime heritage;

 

• Promote and increase pupil exchanges, together with college students of Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs), by means of numerous initiatives together with immersion programmes below the Singapore-India Partnership Foundation (SIPF) and internships, together with attachments of Singaporean interns to India-based corporations below the Confederation of Indian Industry-Enterprise Singapore India Ready Talent (IRT) Programme;

 

• Encourage deeper parliamentary engagement by means of change programmes;

 

• Facilitate public service exchanges and coaching on the senior officers’ degree together with through examine visits;

 

• Continue common dialogue on consular issues between the respective involved authorities, together with ad-hoc consultations to handle points promptly;

 

• Encourage a sustained degree of engagement and interplay between suppose tanks, academia, instructional and analysis establishments in each international locations;

 

• To proceed to advertise cultural exchanges together with of artists, artwork teams and exhibitions;

 

Defence and Security Cooperation: Strategic Cooperation to Promote Regional Peace and Stability

 

• Encourage continued exchanges and engagement on defence and safety cooperation in any respect ranges, together with common conferences between the 2 Defence Ministers by means of the Defence Ministers’ Dialogue and between senior Defence ministry officers by means of the Defence Policy Dialogue;

 

• Continue  navy cooperation and exchanges by means of the joint conduct of military, naval, and air power workout routines in numerous codecs;

 

• Deepen defence expertise cooperation in rising areas similar to Quantum Computing, AI, Automation and Unmanned Vessels;

 

• Continue the  cooperation in maritime safety and submarine rescue, in addition to working carefully inside regional safety architectures in keeping with the rules and areas of cooperation of the ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific and the Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative;

 

• Strengthen cooperation in Maritime Domain Awareness between respective Information Fusion Centres, together with by means of International Liaison Officers;

 

• Singapore acknowledges with appreciation India’s curiosity within the Malacca Straits Patrol;

 

• Reaffirming sturdy dedication to fight terrorism, together with cross-border terrorism, in all its types and manifestations, and reiterating zero-tolerance to terrorism, each international locations will strengthen cooperation to struggle in opposition to world and regional terrorism and terror organizations, together with these proscribed by the UNSC 1267 Sanctions Committee and in opposition to terror financing, by means of bilateral mechanisms, FATF and different multilateral platforms;

 

• Strengthen cooperation below the bilateral Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty, which facilitates cooperation between the 2 international locations in legal investigations and proceedings;

 

• Regularly evaluation the progress in bilateral relations by means of the  Foreign Office Consultations between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Singapore and the Ministry of External Affairs of India;

 

5. The two Prime Ministers agreed to institutionalise the India-Singapore Ministerial Roundtable as a foremost mechanism to yearly monitor the progress within the implementation of the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership.

 

 

Annex B – List of Memoranda of Understanding Witnessed by Prime Minister Wong and Prime Minister Modi

 

1. Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Government of India and the Government of Singapore Concerning Cooperation on a Green and Digital Shipping Corridor;

 

2. MOU between Economic Development Board, Office for Space Technology & Industry of the Republic of Singapore and the Indian National Space Promotion and Authorization Centre on Space Cooperation of the Republic of India on Promoting Collaboration within the Space Sector;

 

3. MOU between the Ministry of Trade and Industry of the Republic of Singapore and the India Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship for Establishment of a National Centre of Excellence for Advanced Manufacturing in National Skill Training Institute, Chennai.

 

4. MOU between the Monetary Authority of Singapore and Reserve Bank of India on Digital Asset Innovation; and

 

5. MOU between the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore and the Airports Authority of India for Cooperation in Training, Research and Development within the discipline of Civil Aviation

 

Annex C – Writeup on PSA Mumbai

 

 

 

NEWS RELEASE

 

4 September 2025, Singapore

 

PSA INAUGURATES PHASE 2 OF PSA MUMBAI –
INDIA’S LARGEST CONTAINER TERMINAL

 

With the inauguration of its Phase 2 growth, PSA Mumbai is poised to turn out to be India’s largest container terminal, doubling its annual dealing with capability to 4.8 million TEUs. Designed to accommodate a number of mega container vessels alongside with 2,000 metres of steady quay size, PSA Mumbai is constructed to assist India’s rising commerce volumes for home and world markets. This improvement is the results of SGD 1.7 billion (USD 1.3 billion) dedicated by PSA below a public-private partnership mannequin, the most important overseas direct funding from Singapore in India so far.

 

Since its first funding in India in 1998, PSA has steadily expanded its presence throughout the nation, rising as a number one power in supporting India’s maritime development. Today, PSA India operates container terminals in Navi Mumbai and Chennai, container freight stations in Mumbai and Mundra by means of its subsidiary PSA Ameya, and collaborates with its affiliate provide chain enterprise PSA BDP to serve a variety of multinational prospects throughout various trade verticals.

 

The inauguration, held on 4 September 2025, commenced with speeches delivered just about from New Delhi by the Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi and the Prime Minister of Singapore Mr Lawrence Wong, throughout Prime Minister Wong’s Official Visit to New Delhi, India. After the speeches, a commemorative basis stone was just about unveiled to mark the official opening of the brand new berths at PSA Mumbai for container dealing with operations.

 

Mr Ong Kim Pong, Group CEO, PSA International, stated “PSA Mumbai’s Phase 2 expansion brings together capacity, connectivity and sustainability in a terminal for India — a catalyst for advancing India’s trade ambitions. PSA Mumbai’s enhanced capacity of 4.8 million TEUs will reinforce the resilience of supply chains within and beyond India, and bolster PSA’s global network of port ecosystems. This milestone underscores the transformative power of purposeful collaboration between the public and private sectors to enhance global trade flows and uplift communities. Our partnership with the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority (JNPA) for PSA Mumbai exemplifies this commitment. Driven by this shared purpose, PSA is proud to partner India on its journey of transformational growth and progress.” 

 

At the inauguration ceremony, a video showcased PSA Mumbai’s energetic rail connectivity, that includes six Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC)-compatible tracks that hyperlink the terminal from Jawaharlal Nehru Port (JNP) in Maharashtra to over 63 Inland Container Depots (ICDs) throughout India. When the Western DFC is totally linked to JNP, PSA Mumbai’s DFC-ready infrastructure will allow importers and exporters to expertise a lift in multimodal logistics effectivity. This aligns with India’s imaginative and prescient for built-in and sustainable logistics, as outlined within the nation’s National Master Plan, PM Gati Shakti.

 

Constructed on 200 hectares of land, the terminal brings collectively enhanced yard capability and multimodal infrastructure to effectively assist India’s maritime connectivity. With electrical tools already powered by renewable vitality and progressive electrification of diesel belongings, PSA Mumbai is designed to uplift commerce sustainably.

 

Beyond infrastructure, PSA Mumbai has created over 1,500 jobs throughout technical, supervisory, and administrative roles, together with crane operators, logistics coordinators, and techniques analysts, offering priceless higher-skilled employment alternatives in India’s port sector.

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