Kolkata Port Trust

Port of Kolkata or Kolkata Port (KoPT), officially known as Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port Trust, is the only riverine major port of India,[9] located in the city of Kolkata, West Bengal, around 203 kilometres (126 mi) from the sea.[10] It is the oldest operating port in India[11] and was constructed by the British East India Company.[12] Kolkata is a freshwater port with no variation in salinity.[13] The port has two distinct dock systems — Kolkata Docks at Kolkata and a deep water dock at Haldia Dock Complex, Haldia. In the 19th century, the Kolkata Port was the premier port in British India. After slavery was abolished in 1833, there was a high demand for labourers on sugar cane plantations in the British Empire. From 1838 to 1917, the British used this port to ship off over half a million Indians from all over India — mostly from the Hindi Belt (especially Bhojpur and Awadh) — and take them to places across the world, such as Mauritius, Fiji, South Africa, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Suriname, and other Caribbean islands as indentured labourers. There are millions of Indo-Mauritians, Indo-Fijians, and Indo-Caribbean people in the world today.

I love this place, India's ship manufacturing company is here

It was a great memory.

Arati Saha crossed English Channel in 1959 while she was only 19 years old,first from Asia. She is from Bengal,India. Later Bula Chowdhury,also from Bengal,achieved the feat,twice.

Good experience, went on a science tour from our school Don Bosco Liluah.