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Ports, Trade and Communication
Geography · Chapter 21 · 4. Infrastructural Resources (Transport and Communication)
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- Harbour versus port; natural and artificial harbours
- Major ports (Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Kochi): location, advantages, main exports and imports
- Factors affecting the nature and direction of trade; international trading patterns of the last five years
- Communication: importance in rural and urban development; infrastructure as key to industrial development
- Modern communication: satellites, remote sensing, GIS, mobile phones, radio, television, internet; mass communication versus telecommunication