Question

Give the description of major seaports of our nation(10th)​

Answer 1

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Jawahar Lal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) won the award of the ‘Best Global Port in India’, the third time in a row in the Atal Shastra Markenomy Award 2020. Marine transport in India is controlled and administered by the state and the central governments. While the shipping ministry manages the major ports, the intermediate and the minor ports are administered by the State government in which the port is located.

Do you know?

India’s 95% of trading by volume is done through maritime transport. It stands at 70% by value.

India has 12 major ports and 205 notified minor and intermediate ports.

Six new mega ports are to be developed under the Sagarmala Project.

The majority of ports in India are located in the below-given states:

• Maharashtra -53
• Gujarat -40
• Tamil Nadu – 15
• Karnataka – 10

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Answer 2

¤ Kandala in which was the first port developed soon after independence to ease the volume of trade on the Mumbai port in the wake of loss of Karachi port to Pakistan after the partition and lies a title port it caters to the convenient handling of exports and imports of highly productive granary and industrial belt stretching across the states of Jammu and Kashmir Himachal Pradesh Punjab Haryana Rajasthan and Gujarat.

¤ Mumbai is the biggest port with a spacious natural and well shuttled Harbour the Jawaharlal Nehru port was planned with a view to discount guest the Mumbai port and serve as a hub port for this region port .

¤ Marmagao Goa is the premier iron ore Export Import of the country this port accounts for about 50% of India's Iron Ore export.

¤ New Mangalore Port located in Karnataka caters to the export of iron ore concentrates from Kudremukh mines.

¤ Kochchi Is the extreme South Western port located at the entrance of Lagoon with a natural Harbour.

¤ Moving along the east coast the extreme Southeastern post of Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu can be seen this port has a natural herbal and rich internal and others it has a flourishing trade handling of large varieties of kar goes to even our neighbouring countries like Sri Lanka Maldives excetra and the coastal regions of India Chennai is one of the oldest artificial ports of the country it is ranked next to Mumbai in terms of the volumes of trade and cargo.

¤ Visakhapatnam is a deepest landlocked and well protected port this sport was originally conceived as an outlet for iron ore exports.

¤ Paradwip port located in Orissa specialises in the export of iron ore.

¤ Kolkata is an inland riverine port this ports has a very large and rich interland of Ganga Brahmaputra basin tidal port it requires constant of Hooghly Haldia port was developed as a subsidiary port in order to retrieve growing pressure on the Kolkata port.