Of land and sea routes to Indian ports.
The classification of Indian ports into major, minor and intermediate has an administrative significance.
Indian-flagged vessels carried about 15 percent of overseas cargo at Indian ports for financial year 2003.
Indian ports handle some 684,000 tons of cargo a day.
Merchant ships in Indian ports hurriedly leave the area or go into concealment.
Most Chinese seamen were engaged in the "country trade" between China and the main Indian ports.
During the last decade, there has been a steady growth of container traffic at the Indian ports.
He refers to many Indian ports in his work The Natural History.
From Indian ports goods from China were introduced to the Roman world.
Kochi is another major Indian port on the Arabian Sea.