Cochin Port, Kerala
Cochin is one of the three largest ports of India. The architect of the modern harbour as Sir Robert Bristow, an Englishmen. It was declared a major port in 1936. A Port Trust was formed in 1964. The beautiful Willington Island on the Vembanad Lake is in between Ernakulam and Mattancherry. In the east, the island is connected to Ernakulam by a national highway-cum-railway bridge, and in the west to Mattancherry by another bridge.
It is a 780 acre man made island which took its present shape in 1941. It is named after Lord Willington, a British Viceroy of India (1931-36).
The Cochin harbour is called “The Queen of the Arabian Sea” and “the Gateway of South India”. This all-weather harbour affords safe anchorage to all types of ships. The Cochin Naval Base is also situated here. This is a major training centre of the Indian Navy.
