Farakka Port or Farakka Floating Terminal is one of the minor river ports in West Bengal. This river port is a small river port. It is located near Farakka town of Murshidabad district. Mainly coal is brought from Indonesia by this port. First coal was brought to Haldia Port by big ships. After that, the coal was transported to Farakka port by the barge.[2][3][4] The port carries 3 lakhs tons or 0.3 million tons coal of per year. The water level of the port is about 3.5 meters (11 feet). Currently, Bangladesh has permission to use the Farakka Port as per the agreement for shipping.[5]
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than necessary for the functioning of Kolkata Port and the National Thermal Power Corporation in Farakka. Other critics have also stressed environmental...
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started its journey to Farakka. The Kolkata Inland Port or Kolkata terminal was handed over to Indian subsidiary "Summit Alliance Port East Gateway" of the...
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basins. It could also provide excess water for the Farakka Barrage to flush out the silt at the port of Kolkata. By 2015, fourteen inter-links under consideration...
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decay of the Ganges by greatly diminishing the flow of the river. The Farakka Barrage was built originally to divert fresh water into the Hooghly River...
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