Write a short note on waterways
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A waterway is any body of water that can be used for transportation by people in boats. These include rivers, lakes, oceans, and canals. They must be wide and deep enough for the boats, and either have no waterfalls and rapids, or have ways for boats to get around them, such as locks. ... Transport stubs.
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Water transport is the most easy and cheap mode of transport. Unlike rail and road transport we do not have to construct water ways because river and seas are given by nature.
Water transport plays important role in case of international trade.
During natural calamities like heavy rain and flood, when rail and road transport are not workable, rescue operations are undertaken by water transport.Before independence, there were many private shipping companies. But after independence. Eastern shipping corporation was established in 1950, in 1956 Western shipping corporation was set up. In 1961 Indian Shipping Corporation was set up merging the two corporations.