Give features of Vishakhapatnam port and name the state it is in
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Visakhapatnam Port is one of 13 major ports in India and the only major port of Andhra Pradesh. It is India's second largest port by volume of cargo handled. It is located on the east coast of India and is located midway between the Chennai and Kolkata Ports.
Features :-
# Island Break-water, constructed by scuttling two old ships JANUS and WELLESDON which form the skeleton around which a rubble mound is formed.
# It is a natural port endowed with deep water basins formed by a high promontory into the sea,known as Dolphin’s Nose Hill to the south and Ross Hill to the North of the entrance channel.
# The only port in India and first of its kind in South Asia to have a Cavern facility for LPG – a mined rock Cavern at a depth of 200 mtrs. below sea level (capacity: 60,000 T)
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