Prof Manasa Behera and his student Ms Piyali Chowdhury from Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT-B) Powai (Mumbai) visited the coastal group from 1 June 2016. During their visit, we exchanged research experiences in modelling coastal and ocean hydrodynamics and COAST2D model was setup for a coastal site on the west coast of India. Opportunities for future collaboration on coastal research were widely discussed. Further actions were planned to strengthen the existing collaboration.