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The port employs around 2,600 employees and has about 4,000 pensioners. [2] The Mormugao Port Authority (MPA), which operates the port, is the largest employer in the Vasco region and has a complete mini-township in Headland Sada which includes schools, residential complexes and amenities (like a hospital) for employees of the Port. [3]
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.
The port is situated in Banana Creek, an inlet about 1 km wide on the north bank of the Congo River's mouth. Port of Boma: Kongo Central: Banana|Boma: CDBOA: Medium-sized port. The maximum draft of the port is 6.7m. [4] The second-largest port of the country, after Matadi.
De Souza, a figure in the realm of Goan musical theater known as tiatr, had a career intertwined with the Mormugao Port Trust (M.P.T; presently referred to as Mormugao Port Authority) in the city of Vasco da Gama, Goa as stated by writer Fausto V. da Costa in the book TIATR 125th Anniversary Commemorative Volume. While there is limited ...
In civilian and maritime law in India, a Port Trust Board is the statutory authority responsible for managing shipping and trade through a commercial seaport. India's first Port Trust Board was established for Calcutta Port in 1870, following passage of the Bombay Port Trust Act in 1879. Similar Boards were set up in Madras in 1905.
South Goa is divided into five subdivisions — Ponda, Mormugao (Vasco da Gama), Margao, Quepem, and Dharbandora; and seven talukas — Ponda, Mormugao, Salcete , Quepem, and Canacona , Sanguem, and Dharbandora. (Ponda taluka shifted from North Goa to South Goa in January 2015). [1]
Mormugao Port: 1985 Mormugao: Goa: 63.4 6 Mumbai Port: 1873 Mumbai: Maharashtra: 84 7 New Mangalore Port: 1974 8.22 km2 Mangaluru: Karnataka: 114.96 8 Paradip Port: 1966 25.44 km2 Paradeep: Odisha: 289.75 9 Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port: 1870 Kolkata/Haldia: West Bengal: 92.77 10 Visakhapatnam Port: 1933 Visakhapatnam: Andhra Pradesh: 143.68 11 V ...
Western India Shipyard Limited was registered in 1993 and has a dedicated composite ship repair yard at Mormugao Harbour at Goa under a 25-year licence agreement with the Mormugao Port Trust. It was taken over by ABG Shipyard Limited, a major shipbuilder with shipbuilding yards based at Dahej and Surat , by the acquisition of equity stake of 60 ...