Ports In India

 

Ports In India




Kandla Port Trust or Deendayal Port is a seaport in the Kutch District of Gujarat. Kandla was constructed in the 1950s as the chief seaport serving western India, after the partition of India and Pakistan. Kandla Port was renamed as Deendayal Port under the India port act of 1908. 


Paradip Port (Opened 1966) is a natural, deep-water port on the East coast of India in the Jagatsinghpur district of Odisha. It is situated at the confluence of the Mahanadi river and the Bay of Bengal. 


Jawaharlal Nehru Port, also known as Nhava Sheva, is the largest container port in India. Located east of Mumbai in Maharashtra (inception on 26 May 1989). 


Mumbai Port Trust is a port that lies midway on the West coast of India, on the natural deep-water harbor of Mumbai, Maharashtra. The first of the present-day docks of the Mumbai Port was built in the 1870s. 


Visakhapatnam Port (Opened December 19, 1933) is one of 13 major ports in India and the only major port of Andhra Pradesh. It is India's second-largest port by volume of cargo handled. 


Chennai Port, formerly known as Madras Port, is the second-largest container port of India and the largest port in the Bay of Bengal. It is the third oldest port among the 13 major ports of India with official port operations beginning in 1881. 


The Port of Kolkata (Opened 1870) is a riverine port in the city of Kolkata, India. It is the oldest operating port in India and was constructed by the British East India Company. 


Krishnapatnam Port popularly known as KPCL is a privately built and owned all-weather, deep water port on the east coast of India, located in the Nellore District of Andhra Pradesh. Krishnapatnam Port (KPCL) is India's largest private-sector port. It was inaugurated on 17 July 2008. 


New Mangalore Port (Opened 1974) is a deep-water, all-weather port at Panambur, Mangalore in Karnataka state in India. The major imports of the port are crude and petroleum products, LPG, wood pulp, timber logs, finished fertilizers, liquid ammonia, etc. NMPT has received Greentech Environment Award 2014. 


V.O.Chidambaranar Port, formerly Tuticorin Port, is one of the 12 major ports in India. It was declared to be a major port on 11 July 1974. It is the second-largest port in Tamil Nadu


Ennore Port, officially renamed Kamarajar Port Limited (Opened 2001), is located on the Coromandel Coast about 24 km north of Chennai Port, Chennai, it is the 12th major port of India, and the first port in India which is a public company. 


Cochin Port (Opened 1928) is a major port on the Arabian Sea - Laccadive Sea - Indian Ocean sea-route in the city of Kochi. The port is governed by the Cochin Port Trust (CPT). 


One of India's top-notch natural harbors, the Mormugao Port is a premier hub of maritime trade in Goa. It was accorded the status of a Major Port in 1963.

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