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The V.O. Chidambaranar Port Authority is an artificial deep sea harbour formed with rubble mound type parallel breakwaters projecting into sea up to 4 km. The Length of North Breakwater is 4,098.66 m, length of South Breakwater is 3,873.37 m and the distance between breakwaters is 1,275 m.
Thoothukudi (formerly called Tuticorin) is a port industrial city in Thoothukudi district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It lies on the Coromandel Coast of the Bay of Bengal . The city is capital and headquarters of the district.
Jawaharlal Nehru Port: 1988 33.7 km2 Navi Mumbai: Maharashtra: 141.37 5 Mormugao Port: 1985 Mormugao: Goa: 63.4 6 Mumbai Port: 1873 Mumbai: Maharashtra: 84 7 New Mangalore Port: 1974 8.22 km2 Mangaluru: Karnataka: 114.96 8 Paradip Port: 1966 25.44 km2 Paradeep: Odisha: 289.75 9 Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port: 1870 Kolkata/Haldia: West Bengal: 92. ...
Korkai was the capital, principal center of trade and important port of the Early Pandyan Kingdom. At that time, it was located on the banks of the Tamiraparani River and at the sea coast, forming a natural harbour. Due to excessive sedimentation, the sea has receded about 6 km in the past 2000 years, leaving Korkai well inland today.
V.O. Chidambaranar Port Authority in the district was declared as the tenth major seaport in India also provides container services. Tuticorin Airport is situated at Vaigaikulam and currently has flights to and from Chennai and Bengaluru .
Tamil Nadu has major seaports at Chennai, Ennore, Tuticorin and Nagapattinam. There are 11 other minor ports. [17] Chennai Port is an artificial harbor and is India's second busiest container hub. [18] Because of its shallow waters, Sethusamudram—the sea separating Sri Lanka from India—presents a hindrance to navigation through the Palk Strait.
The plan was to build the plant along the Gulf of Kutch, an inlet of the Arabian Sea that provides a living for fishing clans that harvest the coast’s rich marine life. Tata assured the World Bank Group, which was putting up $450 million to help finance the project, that there was little reason to worry about the giant plant’s impact on ...
Tuticorin railway station (station code: TN [1]) is an NSG–3 category Indian railway station in Madurai railway division of Southern Railway zone. [2] The station serves the city of Thoothukudi, located in Thoothukudi district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. [3] [4] This station was first opened on 1 January 1876.