Other major South Asian ports include Chittagong in Bangladesh, Colombo, Hambantota and Galle in Sri Lanka, Kolkata, Visakhapatnam, Paradip Port, Chennai, Ennore, Tuticorin, and Nagapattinam in India, and Karachi in Pakistan.

Ennore Port, located on the Coromandel Coast about 24 km north of Chennai Port, Chennai, it is the 12th major port of India, and the first port in India which is a public company.

The Ennore Port is the only corporatised major port and is registered as a company.

The Centre holds a stake of about 68 per cent in the Ennore Port and the remaining 32 per cent is held by the Chennai Port Trust.

Envisaged being a satellite port to decongest and improve the environmental quality at the bustling Chennai Port, Ennore Port is evolving itself into a full-fledged port with the capacity to handle a wide range of products.

Ennore Port was originally conceived as a satellite port to the Chennai Port, primarily to handle thermal coal to meet the requirement of Tamil Nadu Electricity Board ( TNEB ) and was endowed with large chunks of land ( about 2, 000 acres ).

Ennore Port was commissioned by the then Prime Minister of India on 1 February 2001.

The port was declared as a major port under the Indian Ports Act, 1908 in March 1999 and incorporated as the Ennore Port Limited under the Companies Act, 1956 in October 1999.

Ennore Port lies on the northeastern corner of the state of Tamil Nadu on a flat coastal plain known as the Eastern Coastal Plains.

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Pollution and Human Impacts are: the Arani and Kalangi rivers carrying runoff from agricultural fields in the drainage basin cause increase in pollution load from fertilizers and pesticides into the lake ; pollution from domestic sewage being released to the lake ; Petrochemical complex, power plant and a satellite port on Ennore creek have further aggravated the problem ; there is threat of flooding of 14 island – villages of the lake ; subsequent to the Tsunami in 2004, the number of fishing boats have increased resulting in the ` Catch Per Unit Effort ' of fish, prawns and crabs declined from 1000 tonnes to about 700 tonnes ; and this has increased the social and fishing rights conflicts between marine based fishermen and the lagoon fishermen.

The Ennore creek in the south separates the port from the town of Ennore.

The southern part of the lagoon in Tamil Nadu in which fishing is highly productive, closer to Ennore and from the estuary and bar ( where the sea water and lagoon water coalesce ) is controlled by fishermen of three main Pulicat Lagoon villages namely, Kottai Kuppam, Naduvur Madha Kuppam and Andi Kuppam.

It is located on the east coast of the Indian peninsula known as the Coromandel Coast in the Bay of Bengal and is situated 2. 6 km north of the Ennore creek.

The first segment of the canal was constructed as a salt water navigation canal in 1806, from Madras North to Ennore.

There are records to show that the club was first started in the backwaters of Ennore, and pictures of the rowing course lying alongside the sailing course are still available in the club's archives.

File: Ennore Expressway gyrones. JPG | Groynes off the Ennore Expressway, near Chennai, India

The Tamil Nadu Government has announced its proposal to develop 13 minor ports, including Ennore, Cuddalore, Nagapattinam, Thondi, Valinokam, Kolachel and Kanyakumari.

Among the important ports are Cuddalore, Ennore, Chennai, Karaikal, Pondicherry, Tuticorin, Kakinada, Machilipatnam, Vishakhapatnam, Gangavaram, Krishnapatnam, Paradip, Kolkata, Mongla, Chittagong and Yangon.

It also boasts of the Ennore Thermal Power Station and the Avadi Tank Factory.

The main construction work included two berths for handling coal vessels up to 65, 000 DWT, dredging for the approach channel and harbour basin, onshore civil works, navigational aids, and two breakwaters — 4 km in the north side and 1 km in the south — close to the NCTPS and the Ennore Creek.

At this station, the line divides into three: one going towards Avadi and Arakkonam, the other towards Ennore and Gummidipoondi, and the third towards Chennai Beach and Chennai Egmore.

" The Queen of Port Orchard, WA " Illustration, by Alex SchattnerMany authors have set out to create the new folklore of their time ; weaving magical tales designed to carry moral messages.

Port Grand project is a 13-acre world-class facility that has been designed and built in collaboration with top international architects / designers who employed the latest technology and building techniques to deliver a state-of-the-art facility.

The National Stadium, which was also known as the Welsh National Rugby Ground, was designed by Osborne V Webb & Partners and built by G A Williamson & Associates of Porthcawl and Andrew Scott & Company of Port Talbot.

It was designed in 1946 by Clifton " King of Zydeco " Chenier, and fashioned by Willie Landry, a friend and metalworker at the Texaco refinery in Port Arthur, Texas.

In fact, there are operas designed by architects as Zaha Hadid ( maritime station ), Ricardo Bofill ( Liberty Square and Crescent ), Santiago Calatrava ( Marina d ' Arechi Port Village ), David Chipperfield ( judiciary citadel ), Massimiliano Fuksas and Renzo Piano.

Pietro Porcelli's statue of engineer C. Y. O ' Connor, who designed Fremantle Harbour, at Fremantle Port

The first zydeco vest frottoir ( rubboard ) was designed by Clifton Chenier, the " King of Zydeco ," in 1946 while he and his brother, Cleveland, were working at an oil refinery in Port Arthur, TX.

* PGA Golf Club ( Port St. Lucie, Florida ) — 54 holes of public-access resort golf designed by Tom Fazio and Pete Dye in PGA Village, which is ranked among the " 75 Best Golf Resorts in North America " by Golf Digest ( No. 51 ).

* PGA Country Club ( Port St. Lucie, Florida ) — 18 holes of private golf designed by Jim Fazio Sr.

The Port embarked on a major expansion plan, designed by The Richardson Associates and lasting from 1967 to 1973, adding a second runway, a parking garage, two satellite terminals, and other improvements.

Country homes for the landed gentry included: new rooms and remodelling of Wimpole Hall and garden buildings, ( 1790 – 94 ) for his friend Philip Yorke that he met on his Grand Tour ; remodelling of Baronscourt, County Tyrone, Ireland ( 1791 ); Tyringham Hall ( 1792 – 1820 ); the remodelling of Aynhoe Park ( 1798 ); In 1804 Soane remodelled Ramsey Abbey none of his work there now survives ; the remodelling of the south front of Port Eliot and new interiors ( 1804 – 06 ); the Gothic Library at Stowe House ( 1805 – 06 ); Moggerhanger House ( 1791 – 1809 ); for Marden Hill, Hertfordshire, Soane designed a new porch and entrance hall ( 1818 ); remodelling of Wotton House after damage by fire ( 1820 ); a terrace of six houses above shops in Regent Street London, ( 1820 – 21 ) demolished ; Pell Wall Hall ( 1822 ).

The Boston Port Act ( the Trade Act 1774 ) is an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which became law on March 1, 1774, and is one of the measures ( variously called the Intolerable Acts, the Punitive Acts or the Coercive Acts ) that were designed to secure Great Britain's jurisdictions over her American dominions.

The Felixstowe and Nuneaton freight capacity scheme is designed to take more lorry traffic off the A14 between the Port and the Midlands by increasing capacity and allowing the carriage of larger ' Hi-cube ' shipping containers by widening to the W10 loading gauge.

While the harbour at Omaha was destroyed sooner than expected, Port Winston saw heavy use for 8 months — despite being designed to last only 3 months.

Bhutto also started the planning of Port Qasim, designed to expand harbour and naval facilities near Karachi.

It is a steel cantilever construction, designed by John Alexander Low Waddell and built under the auspices of the Port of New York Authority, now the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which currently operates it.

* One Port Center: Camden, New Jersey office highrise designed by architect Michael Graves

NSCAD University's new Port Campus, designed by MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects of HalifaxFounded in 1887, NSCAD has established a long and distinguished history of offering the public the opportunity to study in a visual arts environment.

The Star was designed in 1910 by Francis Sweisguth — draftsman for William Gardner's Naval Architect office — and the first 22 were built in Port Washington, New York by Ike Smith during the winter of 1910-11.

When the underground City Loop line was designed, it was not intended to cater for trains on the Port Melbourne, St Kilda, and Sandringham lines.

The building was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and originally owned by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and KUO Hotels of Korea with Hilton International acting as management agent.

* Enhanced Parallel Port ( EPP ) is a half-duplex bi-directional interface designed to allow devices like printers, scanners, or storage devices to transmit large amounts of data while quickly being able to switch channel direction.

The road was designed and built to provide better access to the Port of Liverpool for East Lancashire and Manchester.

The Port of Liverpool Building is designed in Edwardian Baroque style and is noted for the large dome that sits atop it, acting as the focal point of the building.