Major Ports of India

India has 12 major ports. The following table shows the ports on the Western and Eastern coasts.

The topography of the major ports is given in the following table.

SNo.	Port	Latitude and Longitude	Distance of anchor from harbor entrance (Km)	Entrance channel / Min Depth(m) / Min Width (m)	Type of Dock / Port
1	Chennai	13° 06’ N / 80° 18’ E	6.7	18.6 (IH) / 19.2 (OH) / 244	Artificial Harbour with wet docks.
2	Cochin	9° 58’ N / 76° 14’ E	10.5	11.7 / 200	Natural Port
3	Ennore	13° 15’30” N / 80° 21’ E	3.775	16 / 250	Artificial Harbour
4	Jawahar Lal Nehru	18° 56.43’ N / 72° 56.24’ E	17	11 / 350	All Weather Tidal Port
5	Kandla	23° 01’ N / 70° 13’ E	25	4.6 / 200	Tidal Creek Port
6	Kolkata-Haldia
	Kolkata dock system	22° 32’53” N / 88° 18’ E	233	2.9 / 100	Riverine with impounded docks and river side jetties.
	Haldia Dock system	22° 02’ N / 88° 06’ E	115	6.7 / 467	Riverine with impounded docks and river side jetties.
7	Mangalore	12° 55’ N / 74° 48’ E	7.5	15.4 / 245	Artificial lagoon port
8	Marmugao	15° 25’ N / 73° 48’ E	4.5	13 / 250	Protected Open Natural
9	Mumbai	18° 54’ N / 72° 49’ E	9.6	10.9 / 366	Natural Harbour with Impounded wet docks.
10	Paradeep	20° 15’ N / 86° 40’ E	2	12.8 / 160	Artificial lagoon port
11	Tuticorin	80° 45’ N / 78° 13’ E	4	10.4 / 162	Artificial Harbour
12	Vishakhapatnam	17° 41’ N / 83° 18’ E	2.2(IH)	10.7 / 97.54	IH: Natural Harbour.

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