Kollam Port
| Kollam Port കൊല്ലം തുറമുഖം |
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Kollam Port
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| Country |
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| Location | City of Kollam |
| Coordinates | 8°52′55″N 76°34′26″E / 8.881899°N 76.573781°ECoordinates: 8°52′55″N 76°34′26″E / 8.881899°N 76.573781°E |
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| Opened | AD 825 |
| Operated by | The Directorate of Ports, Government of Kerala |
| Owned by | Government of Kerala |
| Available berths | 2 |
| Wharfs | 1 |
| Port Officer | Captain. Abraham V Kuriakose |
| World Port Index Number | 49160 |
| Electronic Data Interchange Code(EDI) | INKUK1 |
| Cranes | 2 |
| Statistics | |
| Value of cargo | 2.2 million tonnes |
| Annual revenue | 62 million |
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Kollam Port is one of India's 20 major ports situated 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) from Downtown Kollam (formerly Quilon). It is the second largest port in Kerala by volume of cargo handled and facilities. Located on the south west coast of India, under the name of Quilon Port it became one of the country's most important trade hubs from the ninth to the seventeenth centuries.
It was founded by Mar Abo at Thangasseri in 825 as an alternative to reopening the inland sea port (kore-ke-ni kollam) near Backare, (Thevalakkara) also known as Nelcynda and Tyndis (now known as Thekkumbagam) to the Romans and Greeks and Thondi to the Tamils. V. Nagam Aiya in his Travancore State Manual records that in 822, two Nestorian Bishops Mar Sabor and Mar Proth, settled in Quilon with their followers. Two years later the Malabar Era began (824) and Quilon became the premier city of the Malabar Coast region ahead of Travancore and Cochin
Kollam was a port city of the Chera Dynasty until the formation of the independent Venad kingdom, of which it became the capital. Prior to that, Kollam was considered one of the four early entrepots in the global sea trade around the 13th century, along with Alexandria and Cairo in Egypt, the Chinese city of Quanzhou, and Malacca in the Malaysian archipelago.
The port was founded by Mar Abo with sanction from Udayamarthandavarma the Tamil king of the Venad in 825 as an alternative to reopening the inland sea port of Kore-ke-ni Kollam near Backare (Thevalakara) also known as Nelcynda and Tyndis to the Romans and the Greeks and Thondi to the Taamils and is also the foundation of the new city. It is also believed that Mar Abo actually volunteered to the Chera king to create a new sea port town near at Kollam instead of his request for renewing the almost vanishing Tyndis or Nelcynda inland sea port ( kore-ke-ni) at Kollam, lying idle without trade for a few centuries because of the Cheras being overrun by Pallavas in the 6th century AD ending the spice trade from Malabar coast. This allowed Mar Abo to stay for many decades in Chera kingdom and streamline Christian faith among the Nampoothiri Vaishnavites &Nair sub castes in the St. Thomas tradition with Syrian liturgy as Reference for the Doctrine of Trinity without replacing the Sanskrit and Vedic prayers. The Chinese traders were one of the oldest foreign communities to settle in Kollam. That was the period when Kollam evolved as a major trade center (of spices) and an important port along the Malabar coast.
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