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List of Major Sea Ports in India

India has 13 major ports and 176 non-major ones. The major ports carry about 3/4th of the total traffic. Despite adequate capacity and handling facilities the average turnaround time of major Indian ports is less than 4 days which is very high compared to the average turnaround time of about 10 hrs in Hong Kong. 

Name of the Port	Name of the Coastal Area	Name of the State
Tuticorin Port (Now V.O.Chidambaram Port)	Eastern Coast	Tamil Nadu
Kamarajar Port or Ennore Port	Eastern Coast	Tamil Nadu
Chennai Port or Madras Port	Eastern Coast	Tamil Nadu
Visakhapatnam Port	Eastern Coast	Andhra Pradesh
Paradip Port	Eastern Coast	Odisha
Haldia Port	Eastern Coast	West Bengal
Kochi Port or Cochin Port	Western Coast	Kerala
Mangalore Port	Western Coast	Karnataka
New Mangalore	Western Coast	Karnataka
Mormugoa	Western Coast	Goa
Jawaharlal Nehru Port	Western Coast	Maharashtra
Mumbai Port	Western Coast	Maharashtra
Kandla Port	Western Coast	Gujarat

Top 10 busiest and the largest Sea Ports in the World 

1. Shanghai (China)
2. Ningbo-Zhoushan (China)
3. Singapore (Singapore)
4. Rotterdam (The Netherlands)
5. Tianjin (China)
6. Guangzhou (China)
7. Qingdao (China)
8. Qinhuangdao Port (China)
9. Hong Kong (China)
10. Busan (South Korea).