Ensure smooth, safe and uninterrupted inland water transportation through conservation of navigability of inland waterways, maintenance of physical facilities, and development and expansion of physical infrastructural facilities;
Manage ports, light houses, inland water-ways and river trade and its institutional development;
Manage mechanized water vessels, navigation and enactment of relevant legislation;
Provide appropriate education and training in relation to movement of sea going vessels, navigation and marine mercantile;
Manage and maintain inland, island and inter island ferry-boat and shipping services;
Ensure safe movement of Bangladeshi marine vessels and the protection of mercantile interest of Bangladesh;
Creating efficient manpower for the maritime sector.