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December. Till Tsunami in 2004, a small bridge connected a village named Keechakuppam with Nagapattinam town. The construction of an expanded and an elevated bridge was completed after 2008, which enabled the expansion of the port as well as the fishing harbour. The adjacent land of the port has Kudavayar backwater. As is the case with the Kaveri river tributaries, the estuarine portion of the mouth of Kudavayyar to Bay of Bengal is shallow. The adjoining land once was filled with mangroves, but now remains a marshy land. Post Tsunami, many self help groups and the forest department of the Government of Tamil Nadu have been actively involved in creating bioshields, by planting mangrove forest to prevent effects of future disaster.
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limited amount of edible oil imports. The
Nagapattinam lighthouse is the first conventional 20-metre-high (66 ft) lighthouse tower built inside the port premises by the British in 1869. The port and the lighthouse are maintained by the Tamil Nadu Maritime Board under the Government of India. The port has been planned to have a green field, all weather and enhancing capacity to handle 10 lakh tonnes of cargo every year, but the expansion has been opposed by fishing community. The central government plan to convert the port into an economic zone under Sagar Mala project is also opposed by the fishing community fearing restrictions.
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The modern day port has a commercial port complex and a dockyard that are protected by a river mouth sand bar facing the port. The port handles only limited amount of edible oil imports. The
Nagapttinam lighthouse is the first conventional 20-metre-high (66 ft) lighthouse tower built inside the
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and to a small extent to the United
Kingdom and Spain. The port also served passenger traffic to Singapore, but was suspended due to a fire accident. The modern day port has a commercial port complex and a dockyard that are protected by a river mouth sand bar facing the port. The port handles only
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Nagapattinam was the most important port of the Chola empire. The port was also widely used by the Dutch, Portuguese and
British as one of the major ports in Coramandel Coast for trading purposes. Most of the principal exports to Sri Lanka from the port during the British period were rice, piece
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on 5 January 1662. Ten villages were transferred from the
Portuguese to the Dutch – Nagapattinam Port, Puthur, Muttam, Poruvalancheri, Anthanappettai, Karureppankadu, AzhingiMangalam, Sangamangalam, Thiruthinamangalam, Manjakollai, Nariyankudi. As per agreement between the first
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