List of Important Sea Ports in India for SSC,

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General Awareness plays a vital role in all competitive exams. Especially, if you are an
aspirant of SSC, Railways or banking exams it becomes all the more important for you to
have your general awareness on point at all times. Nowadays, in exams like RRB ALP,
RRC Group D, SBI Clerk, SSC CGL, IBPS PO, SSC CPO a lot of questions related to
Important Sea Ports in India are being asked. Therefore, in this article, we have
provided you with a list of Important Sea Ports in India along with some interesting
facts about them. Go through the list of Important Sea Ports in India along with some
facts related to them carefully and try to memorise them simultaneously.

List of Important Sea Ports in India

Name of
City State Interesting Facts
Seaports

Nhava Sheva (or) • Known as ‘King Port of

Arabian Sea’.
Jawaharlal Nehru Navi Mumbai Maharashtra • Largest Container Port in
Port India.

West Mumbai Maharashtra • Largest Port in India.

Mumbai Port
• One of India’s earliest
Mormugao Port SouthGoa Goa Modern Ports

• Major port on the Arabian

Sea and Indian Ocean Sea
route.
Cochin Port Cochin Kerala • It lies on 2 islands
Wellington and
Vallarpadam.

Panambur (or) • It is an all weather port on

New Mangalore Mangalore Karnataka the shore of Arabian Sea
Port
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 • It is situated at the
confluence of the river
Jagatsinghpur Orissa Mahanadi and Bay of Bengal.
Paradip Port
• It has its own railway
system.

• It is the base of Indian Coast

Haldia Port Kolkata West Bengal Guard.

• Located at the juncture of

Bay of Bengal and Andaman
Andaman &
Port Blair Sea.
Port Blair Nicobar Island • Youngest Port of India.

• Major seaport of west coast.

Kandla Port Gandhidham Gujarat • It is the busiest and richest
port of India.

• 2nd largest port in Tamil

Nadu.
Tuticorin Port Tuticorin Tamil Nadu • Now called
‘V.O.Chidambaram Port.

• 3rd largest container port of

Chennai Tamil Nadu India.
Chennai Port
• Largest port in Tamil Nadu.

Ennore Port • India’s first corporate port.

or Kamarajar Port Ennore Tamil Nadu • It gets coal for power.
Limited
• Only natural seaport in the
Andhra
Vishakhapatnam shores of Bay of Bengal.
Vizag Port Pradesh • Oldest shipyard of India.

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