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Mormugao Port is a port on the western coast of India, in the coastal state of Goa. Commissioned in 1885 on the site of a natural harbour, it is one of India's oldest ports. [ 1 ] The port employs around 2,600 employees and has about 4,000 pensioners.
Mormugao is a coastal town situated in the eponymous subdistrict of Southern Goa state, India. It has a deep natural harbour and remains Goa's chief port. Towards the end of the Indo-Portuguese era in 1917, thirty-one settlements were carved out of the Salcette territory, to form Mormugao with Mormugao seaport as its headquarters.
Mormugao Educational Society's College of Arts and Commerce, locally known as MES College, is an institution in Zuarinagar, Vasco-da-Gama which provides training in commerce and the arts. [ 29 ] Mormugao Port Trust also runs three schools at the Primary, Secondary and Higher Secondary levels named Deepvihar.
In 1996-1997 the Konkan Railway was connected with the Mormugao Railway, in a contiguous stretch of approximately 15 km between Margao and Vasco da Gama. [6] In 1998, the complete overhaul of the railway was completed, replacing the metric gauge (1.000 mm) with the Indian gauge (1.676 mm). [citation needed]
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Image Area(km^2) Location State/UT Cargo handled in MTPA (FY2022-23) 1 Chennai Port: 1881 Chennai: Tamil Nadu: 136 2 Cochin Port: 1928 Kochi: Kerala: 79.9 3 Deendayal Port: 1965 900.83km2 [19] Kandla: Gujarat: 269.1 4 Jawaharlal Nehru Port: 1988 33.7 km2 Navi Mumbai: Maharashtra: 141.37 5 Mormugao Port: 1985 Mormugao: Goa: 63.4 6 Mumbai Port ...
South Goa district is one of two districts that together constitute the state of Goa, India, within the region known as the Konkan.It is bounded by North Goa district to the north, the Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka state to the east and south, while the Arabian Sea forms its western coast.
[2] His works began in 1624, according to ancient epigraphic inscriptions. In that century, due to the continuous plagues and attacks that racked the old city of Goa, the Viceroys considered the transfer the capital of Portuguese India ( Índia Portuguesa ) to Mormugao , for what purpose some buildings were erected.