{"id":26609,"date":"2024-09-16T12:48:26","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T07:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=26609"},"modified":"2025-04-08T03:24:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T21:54:53","slug":"gopalpur-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/gopalpur-port\/","title":{"rendered":"Gopalpur Port"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Gopalpur Port:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>deep-draft, multi-cargo port<\/strong> located on the <strong>east coast <\/strong>of India in the mineral-rich state of <strong>Odisha<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It has the capacity to handle 20 million metric tonne per annum of cargo.<\/li>\n<li>It <strong>lies between Paradip Port <\/strong>in the north <strong>and Visakhapatnam Port<\/strong> in the south, at almost equal distance from each.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>hinterland<\/strong> of the port <strong>are the states of Odisha, Jharkhand, and Chhattisgarh<\/strong>, thus <strong>providing access to a<\/strong> mix of minerals, <strong>steel, aluminium, cement, and power plants<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>coal fields of IB and Talcher<\/strong>, which account for approximately <strong>25% of India\u2019s coal reserves<\/strong>, form <strong>part of the hinterland <\/strong>of the port.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Connectivity:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>broad-gauge Howrah-Visakhapatnam-Chennai east coast trunk route,<\/strong> which <strong>runs parallel<\/strong> to the east coastline, is just 6 km away from Gopalpur port site.<\/li>\n<li>Close <strong>proximity to NH5<\/strong> (<strong>Kolkata-Chennai) <\/strong>provides excellent road connectivity to and from Gopalpur.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Q1<\/strong>: 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.telegraphindia.com\/business\/adani-ports-enters-agreement-to-acquire-95-per-cent-stake-in-gopalpur-port\/cid\/2047658\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Adani Ports enters agreement to acquire 95 per cent stake in Gopalpur port<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gopalpur Port is a deep-draft, multi-cargo port located on the east coast of India in the mineral-rich state of Odisha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":26610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26609","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\/26609","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=26609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}