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_______ port is located in Kerala.

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  1. Chennai

  2. Cochin

  3. Kandla

  4. Tuticorin

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Cochin port is located on the Willington island on the South-West coast of India located on the crossroads of the East-West Ocean trade. The port is called the natural gateway to the vast industrial and agricultural produce markets of southwest India.

 

Which one of the following port is the second largest one handling sea borne trade?

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  1. Visakhapatnam

  2. Cochin

  3. Chennai

  4. Kolkata

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Correct Option: C

Which of the following is the biggest and busiest port for exports?

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  1. Kandla

  2. Hooghly

  3. Mumbai

  4. Chennai

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Mumbai Port is the largest port in India and handles bulk cargo traffic with its four jetties for handling Liquid chemicals, Crude and petroleum products. International container traffic of Mumbai Port is directed to the new and big Nhava Sheva port.

The Kandla sea port is in the state of

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  1. Gujrat

  2. Maharashtra

  3. Chennai

  4. Orissa

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Kandla, also known as the Kandla Port Trust or Maharao Khengarji Port Trust is a seaport in Kutch District of Gujarat state in western India, near the city of Gandhidham. Located on the Gulf of Kutch, it is one of major ports on west coast. Kandla was constructed in the 1950s as the chief seaport serving western India, after the partition of India and Pakistan left the port of Karachi in Pakistan

 

 

The queen of the Arabian sea is ________.

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  1. Mumbai port

  2. Cochin port

  3. Kandla port

  4. New Mangalore port

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Kochi Called the "Queen of the Arabian Sea", Kochi was an important spice trading centre on the west coast of India from the 14th century onward, and maintained a trade network with Arab merchants from the pre-Islamic era. Occupied by the Portuguese in 1503, Kochi was the first of the European colonies in colonial India.

The first port in India which will be touched by all the ships coming from Europe is _________.

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  1. Madras

  2. Kolkata

  3. Cochin

  4. Mumbai

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Correct Option: D

Which of the following port is on the western coast of India ?

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  1. Paradip

  2. Ennore

  3. Tuticorin

  4. Marmagao

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

  1. The port of India is controlled by the Central Government under the ambit of Port Trust Act, 1963. There are six major ports located at west coast of India i.e. Kandla Port (Gujarat), Mumbai (Maharashtra), Navasheva (Jawaharlal Nehru Port), Murmagoa, New Mangalore (Karnataka), and Kochi (Kerala).
  2. Paradip is the port in Orissa.
  3. Ennore Port, is located on the Coromandel Coast about 18 km north of Chennai Port, Chennai

 

 

Which one is not a major port on the east coast?

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  1. Paradeep

  2. Kolkata

  3. Kochi

  4. Visakhapatnan

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

There are seven major ports located on the east coast of India i.e. Tuticorin (Tamil Nadu), Chennai (Tamil Nadu), Ennore (Tamil Nadu), Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh), Paradip (Odisha), Haldia & Kolkata (West Bengal), and Port Blair (Andaman & Nicobar Island).

The share of Mumbai Port in the sea borne trade of India is ________.

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  1. One-fourth

  2. One-third

  3. One -fifth

  4. One-sixth

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Correct Option: A

Panambur Port is located in ________.

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  1. Karnataka

  2. Kerala

  3. Tamilnadu

  4. Guajrat

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The port is in Panambur, Mangalore on the west coast of India. It is to north of confluence of Gurupura (Phalguni) river to Arabian sea