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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.
Jawaharlal Nehru Port: 1988 33.7 km2 Navi Mumbai: Maharashtra: 141.37 5 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. ...
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. [30]
1878 - Under the Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of 1878, Mormugao was identified as having one of the best natural harbours and the work of modernising the port was undertaken by The Western Indian Portuguese Guaranteed Railway Company. The work began in 1878 and the Mormugao Port was commissioned in 1885.
After the Annexation of Goa on 19 December 1961, Pereira led a strike in the port harbour on 12 January 1962 and founded the first trade union in Goa in Mormugao Port, the Marmagao Port, Dock and Transport Workers' Union, now known as the Mormugao Waterfront Workers' Union, on 20 January 1962.
The Guntakal–Vasco da Gama section, or Mormugao Railway (formerly known as West of India Portuguese Railway), [3] is a railway line connecting the town of Guntakal in Andhra Pradesh and Vasco da Gama in Goa, India. It traverses the Western Ghats and covers a distance of 457 kilometres (284 mi) across Goa, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.
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. The high project costs led to its ...