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Port of Anchorage: The Port of Anchorage is a critical link between the U.S. state and Alaska, providing an estimated 90% of the merchandise cargo to 80% of Alaska's populated areas. The Port of Anchorage also provides essential fuel supplies to the Anchorge and southcentral area and serves as the entry point for additional goods and cargos distributed to rural Alaskan communities. It is located just north of Ship Creek near downtown Anchorage on the Knik Arm of the Cook Inlet of the Pacific Ocean. |
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Deep Water Port : In the case of Kakinada Port, we can find easily that its potential from the view-point of cargo generation capacity of its hinter-land is being under-utilised. The level of infrastructure available at the port is found to be far short of the requirements for handling export/import cargoes belonging to the industries that have come up or are proposed to be set-up in the port's hinter-land. |
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Vakalapudi Lighthouse : Vakalapudi Lighthouse is situated about 10 Km north east from Kakinada town. Kakinada(previously Cocanada) is an ancient port since the period of Kakatiyas. The British East India Company had established their agency here in the mid 19th century and introduced a regular Steamer service to ply between Rangoon and Machilipatnam touching important ports on the route including Kakinada.In 1860 a masonry column was raised in the port area for placing an oil lamp. This beacon was painted white. The work for the lighthouse tower began in 1874 and competed in 1878. |
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Vakalapudi beach : Vakalapudi is a city in the State of Andhra Pradesh with a population of approximately 140,009. The closest tourism destination to Vakalapudi is Kakinada. Other close by tourism destinations include Peddapuram Town, Yanam and Rajahmundry. The nearest major railway station to Vakalapudi is Kakinada Town (CCT) which is at a distance of 5.6 kilometres. The nearest airport is at Vishakapatnam which is at a distance of 127 kilometres.
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JNTU Kakinada : The College was established on 16th July 1946 as the College of Engineering, Visakhapatnam situated at Kakinada. It was later named as the Government College of Engineering, Kakinada. After being initially affiliated to the University of Madras and later to the Andhra University, it became a constituent College of the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University at the time of its formation on 2nd October 1972.
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