CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION
KANDLA PORT
JAWAHAR LAL NEHRU
PORT
MUMBAI PORT

MORMUGAO PORT

MANGALOR
E PORT COCHIN
PORT PORT BLAIR
TUTICORIN PORT

CHENN
AI PORT
VIZAG PORT
PARADIP PORT
 India has a vast coast line of about 7400 kilo
meters served by 13 major ports and about 184
minor ports and private ports

 Port is important in international trade. Since a

seaport is the nerve of foreign trade permitting
import of goods
 The major ports are those ports which are under
the preview of the central government and the
minor ports also known as non major ports.
However, only 61 of the 185 minor ports provide
round the year berthing facilities.
KANDLA PORT
Kandla Port- Gujarat:

The Kandla Port is situated on

the Gulf of Kutch near the
Gandhidham city in Kutch
District of Gujarat .

The Growth Engine of India



host of the major seaport of

west coast ,

The Port of Kandla is the first



special economic zone in India

as well as in Asia,
 Kandla Port is hub for major imports like petroleum,
chemicals and iron also export grains , salt and textiles.

 Port of Kandla is one of the highest earning ports of

India, another port in Gujarat is Mundra Port , India’s
largest private port.
 Jawaharlal Nehru Port first
name is Nhava Sheva.

 Nehru port is situated at the

mainland of Konkan area
across the Navi Mumbai
Maharashtra.

 Jawaharlal Nehru Port is the

largest container port in
India
 Jawaharlal Nehru Port is the king port of Arabian Sea at
west cost.

 JNP handle a large volume of international container

traffic and domestic cargo traffic.

 The major exports are textiles , carpets , boneless meat

and main imports are machinery , vegetable oils and
chemicals .
 The Mumbai Port is located
in the mainland of west
Mumbai on the West coast
of India.

 Mumbai Port is natural

deep-water harbour.

 Mumbai Port is the largest

port in India.
 Mumbai Port handles bulk cargo traffic with its four
jetties for handling Liquid chemicals, Crude and
petroleum products

 International container traffic of Mumbai Port is directed

to the new and big Jawaharlal Nehru port.
 The main port Goa,
of Marmagao best
port is a
natural harbours India
of located in South
Goa
 Marmagao port is one of the
leading iron ores exporter
port in India

 raw materials
 The port of Marmagao is one of the major
attraction of Goa along with the beautiful city of
Vasco da Gama. International Airport Dabolim.

 The natural harbour of Goa is one of India’s

earliest
modern ports.
 First name of Manglore port
is Panambur Port.

 Seaport located near to

Surathkal railway station in
Dakshina Kannada district
of Karnataka.

 New Mangalore Port is a

deep water all weather port
and the only major port of
Karnataka and one of the
largest port in India.
 Port of Mangalore export major commodities like manganese,
granite stones, coffee and cashew.

 main imports includes timber logs , LPG , petroleum products

and cargo containers.

 There is a beautiful beach at south of sea port of Panambur

along with the shore of the Arabian Sea.
 The Cochin port is one of
the largest port in India.

 the major port on the

Arabian Sea and Indian
Ocean sea route.

 The port of Cochin lies on

two islands of Willingdon
and Vallarpadam.

 The largest container

trans
shipment facility in India.
 Kochi Port is equipped with maritime facilities
Cochin
Shipyard, Kochi Refineries and Kochi Marina.

 Kochi city is famous for its traditional spices.

 Well known as the port city of Fort Kochi during

the European colonials.

 It also get its individual Kochi International airport, third

International airport in the state of Kerala.
 Port Blair is the capital city
of Andaman Nicobar Islands

 Andaman Nicobar Islands, a

Union Territory of India
located at the juncture of
the Bay of Bengal and
Andaman Sea.

 Port Blair is the youngest

sea port in India and one of
the 12 major port of the
country.
 The only port of Andaman islands are connected to mainland
of India through flight and ship .

 Port Blair is the principal hub for shipping in the islands

of Andaman.

 one of the most popular tourist destination with several

places of interest around like virgin beaches, scuba diving
and water sports.
 Tuticorin Port is an artificial
deep-sea harbour and one of
the 12 major ports of India.

 It is also known as Tuticorin

Port.

 It is also the second largest

port in Tamil Nadu.

 First is Chennai Port.

 one of the largest container

terminal in India.
 The artificial port of Tuticorin is a all weather port and who
receive a large volume of international traffic .

 Port of Tuticorin are a used to be best port for maritime trade

and pearl fishery on the bay of Bengal.
 Madras Port is the one
of
the oldest port of India.

 second largest port in the

country.

 Chennai Port also the

largest port in the Bay of
Bengal.

 Hub port for cars, big

containers and cargo traffic
in the east coast of India.
 Port o f the Coromandel Coast handles a variety o f
cargo
containers.

 Automobiles.
 Coal.
 Fertilizers.
 petroleum products.

 Chennai Port term inals have lighthouses around, Intra

port
connectivity, Pipelines and railway term inus.
 The port city Visakhapatnam is
located on the southeast coast
of India in the state of Andhra
Pradesh.

 Visakhapatnam or Vizag has

one of the India’s largest
seaport and the oldest
shipyard of country .

 The Visakhapatnam harbours

is the only Natural harbours in
the bay of Bengal shore .
 Vizag is second largest city in Andhra .

 The government aims to triple india's total port capacity to

3.1 billion tonnes by 2020.

 Coal is manually unloaded from vessels and shovelled onto

trucks that take it to an open stack yard from where
winds carry coal dust to the city.
 The artificial, deep-water
port of east coast of India is
located in the
Jagatsinghpur district of
Orissa state.

 Port of Paradip is the major

port in the east cost shore.

 Port is situated at the

confluence of great river
Mahanadi and the Bay of
Bengal.
 Paradip Port has its own railway system.

 Cold handling plant and a national highway

connects the port with rest of Indian
road networks.
 Haldia port is also known as
Calcutta port.

 Haldia port or Calcutta Port

is a major seaport situated
near the Hooghly River in
the state of West Bengal.

 Port of Haldia is one of the

major trade centre for
Calcutta.
 Calcutta port bulk cargoes of Chemicals,
receive Petrochemicals
and oils.
 Port of Kolkata is also a base of Indian Coast Guard.
 Kollam Port is one of the
major ports in India.

 Port is situated 4 km
away from heart of the
City of Kollam- The
Cashew Capital of the
World.

 It is the second largest

port in Kerala by volume
of cargo handled and
facilities..
 It is located on the west coast of India.

 Kollam city was one the most famous trade hubs in India
during AD 800- 18 00 period.

 The Port is governed by the Directorate of Ports Department

of Government of Kerala.

 The modern Cargo Port in Kollam was commissioned on 19

October 1997 and inaugurated by Sri.
V.S.Achuthanandan, the then Chief Minister of Kerala.

 Now a customs clearance centre and cement packing terminal

is working in the port. The wharf can easily handle ships up
to 200 Meters in length.
 Indian government has a federal structure, and according to its
constitution, maritime transport is to be administered by both the
Central and the State governments. While the central government's
shipping ministry administers the major ports, the minor and
intermediate ports are administered by the relevant departments or
ministries in the nine coastal states Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, West
Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Goa, Maharashtra and
Gujarat. Several of these 187 minor and intermediate ports have been
identified by the respective governments to be developed, in a
phased manner, a good proportion of them involving public–
private partnership.