{"id":21148,"date":"2024-03-03T09:20:20","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T03:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=21148"},"modified":"2025-04-06T10:11:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T04:41:46","slug":"nhava-sheva-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/nhava-sheva-port\/","title":{"rendered":"Nhava Sheva Port"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Nhava Sheva Port<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Port of Nhava Sheva lies to the\u00a0east of the Port of Mumbai, about six nautical miles away\u00a0across Thane Creek\u00a0on the Arabian Sea.<\/li>\n<li>It is also\u00a0commonly known as the Jawaharlal Nehru Port, as it is run by the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is known to be the\u00a0busiest port in India and deals with almost\u00a0half of the country\u2019s imports and exports.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0Port of Nhava Sheva and the Port of Mumbai\u00a0have a common entry channel that stretches about 21 kilometres (33.9 miles) and at a depth of 10.1 to 11 metres (33 to 36 feet).\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The Port of Nhava Sheva was\u00a0commissioned in 1989,\u00a0as a satellite port to relieve the\u00a0Port of Mumbai from heavy congestion.<\/li>\n<li>As a small port in its early years, it only had single terminals for bulk cargos and containers.<\/li>\n<li>It has\u00a0since expanded to include five privately-operated port terminals for\u00a0containerized cargo handling and also a facility for\u00a0handling bulk liquid cargo.<\/li>\n<li>It is recognized as\u00a0one of the top 30 global container ports in terms of size and capacity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) Which are the major ports in India?<\/h3>\n<p>Major ports in India are Chennai Port, Kolkata Port, Haldia Port (West Bengal), Jawaharlal Nehru Port (Maharashtra), Kamarajar Port or Ennore Port (Chennai), Kandla Port (Gujarat), Kochin Port (Kerala), New Mangalore Port (Karnataka), Mormugao Port (Goa), Mumbai Port, Paradip Port (Odisha), Tuticorin Port (Tamil Nadu), Visakhapatnam Port (Andhra Pradesh).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/cities\/mumbai-news\/customs-seize-karachi-bound-consignment-at-nhava-sheva-port-101709407590322.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Customs seize Karachi-bound consignment at Nhava Sheva port<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Port of Nhava Sheva lies to the east of the Port of Mumbai, about six nautical miles away across Thane Creek on the Arabian Sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":21149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21148","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}