Major Ports in India - a look

Major Ports on West Coast (6)
#	Artificial / Natural	Name	State
1	Natural	Jawaharlal Nehru, Nhava Shewa	Maharashtra
2	Natural	Mumbai, 1873
3	Natural	Kandala, Kutch – Tidal Port	Gujarat
		In 1950s, because Karachi port lost in partition
		First EEZ (Exclusive Economic Zone) in India and in Asia
4	Natural	Marmugoa –Tidal Port	Goa
		@ Zuvari estuary
5	Artificial	New Mangalore	Karnataka
		Deep port; all-weather
6	Natural	Cochin/Kochi; Willingdon Island	Kerala
Major Ports on East Coast (7)
7	Natural	Tuticorin – V O Chidambaranar Port	Tamil Nadu
8	Artificial	Chennai; all-weather
9	Artificial	Ennore – Private Port
10	Natural	Vishakhapatnam	Andhra Pradesh
		Newly proposed: Dugarajapatanma
11	Artificial	Paradeep (man made lagoon)	Odisha
12	Natural	Haldia / Kolkata	West Bengal
		Riverine Port
		Oldest major port of India*
		Need constant dredging to keep depth
		Newly proposed: Sagar
13	Natural	Port Blair	Andaman & Nicobar Islands
		Declared as 13th major port in 2010