SYAMA PRASAD MOOKERJEE PORT

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• Port of Kolkata or Kolkata Port, officially known as Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port Trust (Formerly Kolkata Port Trust), is the only riverine major port of India, located in the city of Kolkata, West Bengal, around 203 kilometres from the sea.
  
  
• It is the oldest operating port in India and was constructed by the British East India Company in 1870.
  
  
• Kolkata is a freshwater port with no variation in salinity.
  
  
• The port has two distinct dock systems — Kolkata Docks at Kolkata and a deep water dock at Haldia Dock Complex, Haldia.