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According to Constitution of India, 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 of Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Odisha ...
Port of Colombo in Sri Lanka Bunbury Port Fremantle Port Chittagong port Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Mundra Port, Gujarat, India Visakhapatnam Port, Andhra Pradesh, India Kochi Port, Kerala, India Chennai port, Tamil Nadu, India Port Louis, Mauritius Port of Hambantota in Sri Lanka
The top 10 busiest container ports by year (2004–2023) This article lists the world's busiest container ports (ports with container terminals that specialize in handling goods transported in intermodal shipping containers ), by total number of twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) transported through the port.
It is poised to become India's first automated port [11] and holds a unique position as the only Indian port directly adjacent to an international shipping lane. The port's location offers a significant advantage: it lies just 10 nautical miles (19 km) [12] from the heavily trafficked east-west shipping channel connecting Europe, the Persian ...
The Indian Ports Association was formed in 1966 [2] for controlling the operation of 12 major ports. [3] [4] It works under the supervision of Ministry of Shipping and was formed with the objective of undertaking research related to planning and organisation, [5] fixing wages of staff working in the 12 ports [6] and making efforts on promoting technical and economic situations relating to ports.
The International Container Transshipment Port (ICTP), also called the Galathea Bay Port is a proposed container transshipment port at Galathea Bay, Great Nicobar Island in the union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India, to be constructed at a cost of ₹ 44,000 crore. [1] It has a natural depth of more than 20 meter. [2]
Chennai Port is the only port on the East Coast of India with a cruise terminal. [93] Chennai Port is one of the five major ports in the country that have been identified by the Ministry of Shipping for development of cruise terminals, the other four being Goa, Kochi, Mumbai and Mangaluru. [94]
The South Indian state of Kerala has a coastline of around 590 km. The state is home to two major ports (Cochin Port) operated by Cochin Port Authority & DP World and owned by Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways under Government of India and Vizhinjam International Seaport Thiruvananthapuram, India's first and only deep water automatic transshipment port.In India the ports under central ...