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Currently, the port can handle container vessels up to 3,000 TEUs capacity. [18] For capacity augmentation, Tuticorin Port has taken up various infrastructural development projects under the National Maritime Development Programme (NMDP). The Port achieved a record of handling 5 lakh TEU's in 2012-2013 surpassing the target fixed by Shipping ...
The first ship, the SS Galia, was purchased from France [6] with the help of Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Aurobindo Ghose [8] and arrived in Tuticorin in 1907. The ship travelled between Tuticorin and Colombo and could carry 1300 passengers and 40,000 bags of cargo. [9] The ship bore a flag with the slogan "Vande mataram". [9]
The Tuticorin Port was rechristened as V.O. Chidambaranar Port Trust by Manmohan Singh, former Prime Minister and G.K. Vasan, Union Minister of Shipping. In 2022, it was again renamed as V.O. Chidambaranar Port Authority by Government of India.
Port equipped to handle containerized cargo, facilitating both domestic and international trade. Bulk Cargo Port. Port specializing in the handling of bulk cargo, such as coal, grain, or ore. Passenger Port. Port primarily catering to passenger traffic, including cruise terminals and ferry terminals. Military Port.
Thoothukudi (formerly called Tuticorin) is a port city, a municipal corporation, and an industrial city in Thoothukudi district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The city lies on the Coromandel Coast of the Bay of Bengal. Thoothukudi is the capital and headquarters of Thoothukudi district. It is located about 590 kilometres (367 miles ...
Sethusamudram Shipping Canal Project (lit. ' Setu Ocean Shipping Canal Project') is a proposed project to create a shipping route in the shallow straits between India and Sri Lanka. This would provide a continuously navigable sea route around the Indian Peninsula. The channel would be dredged in the Sethusamudram sea between Tamil Nadu and Sri ...
Paradip Port is a natural, deep-water port on the East coast of India in Paradip, just 53 km (33 mi) from Jagatsinghpur city in Jagatsinghpur district of Odisha, India. It is at the confluence of the Mahanadi river and the Bay of Bengal, 210 nmi (390 km; 240 mi) south of Kolkata and 260 nmi (480 km; 300 mi) north of Visakhapatnam.
Office of the Cochin Port Trust in Willingdon Island Evening view of International Container Trans-shipment Terminal (ICTT). Cochin Port or Kochi Port is a major port on the Arabian Sea – Laccadive Sea – Indian Ocean sea-route in the city of Kochi in Ernakulam district in the state of Kerala and is one of the largest ports in India.