Question

describe the main features of Indiancoastal network.

Answer 1

MAIN FEATURES OF INDIAN COASTAL NETWORK :

India's trade with foreign countries is carried from the ports located along the coasts. India has 12 major and 181 medium and minor ports.

WEST COAST

1) Kandla in Kuchchh was the first port developed after independence to facilitate the volume of trade on the Mumbai port. This port handles the exports and imports of productive granary and industrial products from the states of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and Gujarat.

2) Mumbai is the most spacious, natural and the biggest port.

3) Marmagao port in Goa is the most predominant in exporting iron ore in the country.

4) New Mangalore port in Karnataka, handles the export of iron ore extracted from Kundremukh mines.

5) Kochi in south west India is a port located at the entrance of a lagoon with a natural harbour.

EAST COAST

1) Tuticorin port in the east coast of Tamilnadu, has a natural harbour and rich hinterland. This port handles a large number of cargoes to our neighbouring countries like Sri Lanka, Maldives, etc.,

2) Chennai is one of the oldest artificial ports, ranking next to Mumbai in terms of volume of trade and cargo.

3) Visakhapatnam is the deepest landlocked and well protected port and was, originally for iron ore exports.

4) Paradwip port of Orissa handles iron ore export.

5) Kolkata, an inland riverine port, serves as a rich hinterland of Ganga-Brahmaputra basin. This port, being a tidal port, requires constant dredging of Hoogly.

6) Haldia port is a subsidiary port in order to relieve traffic on the Kolkata port.