Question

(4) Which department prepared the original maps of Mumbai port?







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Answer 1

Answer:

Port development was undertaken by the civil engineering partnership Sir John Wolfe-Barry and Lt Col Arthur John Barry as Joint Consulting Engineers to the Bombay Port Trust at the end of the nineteenth century.

Answer 2

Answer:

The original maps of Mumbai port were prepared by the Department of Mumbai Port Trust

Explanation:

Mumbai Port has played an important role in the development of trade and commerce in the country. The port, which was designed to handle general cargo, has adapted to the changing times. It is now also capable of handling containerised cargo.

The port handles about 10 per cent volume of the sea-borne trade handled by major ports of the country. MbPT recorded a 3 per cent rise in traffic in 2011-12, at a time when other major ports recorded de-growth of 1.73 per cent.

The strength of the Mumbai Port really is the fact that it caters to entire range of cargo types like break bulk, project cargo, edible oil, coal, petroleum oil and lubricants (POL), chemicals, automobile cement and fertilizers.