Kandla Tourism, Gujarat India
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- State: Gujarat
- District: Kutch
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Kandla, India Overview
The Port of Kandla is located on the Gulf of Kutch on the northwestern coast of India some 256 nautical miles southeast of the Port of Karachi in Pakistan and over 430 nautical miles north-northwest of the Port of Mumbai (Bombay).
Inaugurated by Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the Port of Kandla was declared a major port in 1955. For the management of the port, the Kandla Port Trust was created by law in 1963. In 1965, the first of its kind special economic zone in India and in Asia, called Port of Kandla Special Economic Zone (KASEZ) was established. Covering 310 hectares, this biggest multiple-product special economic zone in the country is located at a distance of 9 km from the Port of Kandla.
Today, the Port of Kandla is the hub for exporting grains and importing oil to different parts of the world. Major imports entering the country through this port include petroleum, chemicals, iron and steel machinery, salt, textiles and grains.
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, India History
The Port of Kandla was created in 1931 with a single pier by erstwhile ruler of Kutch, Khengarji III, who personally identified the spot and also connected the port by extending the lines of Cutch State Railway from Anjar. After Indian independence in the late 1940s, the new government selected the Port of Kandla as a promising outlet to the Arabian Sea.