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View of Kakinada port from Beach. The state's ports handled 73 million tons of cargo in financial year 2015–16. [3] The state of Andhra Pradesh is the second maritime state (after Gujarat) in terms of cargo handled by Non-Major Ports and the third maritime state (after Gujarat and Maharashtra) in terms of overall cargo handled including Visakhapatnam port trust .
Krishnapatnam Port popularly known as KPCL is a privately built and owned all weather, deep water port on the east coast of India, located in the Nellore District of Andhra Pradesh. It is located about 190 km north of the Chennai Port and 18 km east of the city of Nellore .
Krishnapatnam port (about 5 km from site) will cater to the requirement of importing heavy machinery and both domestic & imported coal of 3.5 and 1.5 million tons per annum respectively. EPC contract for the main plant has been awarded to BHEL , L&T and Tata Projects Limited during July 2008 and for BOP during February 2009.
Distance from Krishnapatnam Port to Ramayapatnam port is 83 kilometres (52 mi), and is located north from Krishnapatnam. [2] There are no protected areas—ecologically sensitive areas, marine national parks, wildlife sanctuaries, etc.—within a 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) radius of the port. [1]
Krishnapatnam Port; M. Machilipatnam Port; Mulapeta Port; P. Template:Ports in Andhra Pradesh; R. ... This page was last edited on 5 October 2021, at 01:00 (UTC).
The port was originally expected to begin its operations by 2021. Navayuga Engineering Company Limited bagged the project to develop the port on a build-own-operate-transfer basis. [3] After the YSR Congress party came into power in Andhra Pradesh state in 2019, the project was handed to RITES and was asked to submit a DPR for the same by ...
Krishnapatnam railway station (station code:KAPT [1]), is an Indian Railways station in Krishnapatnam of Nellore district in the state of Andhra Pradesh. It is a non-coaching traffic handling station and is mainly utilized for freight transport from Krishnapatnam Port .
Visakhapatnam port inner harbour view. Although the need for building a port on the east coast to access Central Provinces was felt by the British in the 19th century, the proposal of Col. H.Cartwright Reid of British Admiralty for constructing a harbour at Visakhapatnam was approved by the Government only after the First World War.