Tamil Nadu is gearing to become a global manufacturing hub taking advantage of its coastline measuring 1,076 km. So far, it has 17 ports, and microminiature expansion works on these ports have been accelerated following the commissioning of the Chennai-Vladivostok maritime corridor. The Tamil Nadu Maritime Board (TNMB) is building a greenfield port at Cuddalore under a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model involving an investment of ₹4,000 crore. The port will have 25 berths along a 3.6 km seafront and will handle 40 million tonnes of cargo annually. It will be the second port constructred by the TNMB, a decade after the Kattupalli port, 30 km north of Chennai. Other minor ports like Nagapattinam, Udangudi and Rameswaram
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