{"id":54758,"date":"2021-10-08T07:27:02","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T07:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=54758"},"modified":"2021-10-08T07:27:03","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T07:27:03","slug":"major-sea-ports-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/major-sea-ports-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Sea Ports in India \u2013 Lifelines of National Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Major ports are an integral part of India&#8217;s economy connecting country with the world. The trades with foreign countries are carried on through the major ports of India. There are 2 major and 200 notified non-majors (minor\/intermediate) ports in India. Here is the list of major ports in India:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Kandla in Kachchh was the first port to be developed after independence. It is also known as the Deendayal Port.<\/li><li>Mumbai is the biggest port with a spacious natural and well-sheltered harbour.<\/li><li>Marmagao port (Goa) is the premier iron ore exporting port of India.<\/li><li>Mangalore port, located in Karnataka caters to the export of iron ore.<\/li><li>Kochchi is the extreme south-western port, located at the entrance of a lagoon.<\/li><li>Tuticorin port is situated at the extreme south-east.<\/li><li>Chennai is one of the oldest artificial ports of India.<\/li><li>Visakhapatnam is the deepest landlocked and well-protected port<\/li><li>Paradwip port located in Odisha, specialises in the export of iron ore.<\/li><li>Kolkata is an inland riverine port.<\/li><li>Haldia port was developed as a subsidiary port, in order to relieve growing pressure on the Kolkata port.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major ports are an integral part of India&#8217;s economy connecting country with the world. The trades with foreign countries are carried on through the major ports of India. There are 2 major and 200 notified non-majors (minor\/intermediate) ports in India. Here is the list of major ports in India: Kandla in Kachchh was the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":54649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1761],"tags":[1838],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-54758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upsc-notes","tag-geography-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54766,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54758\/revisions\/54766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54758"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=54758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}