Inland port
Topic: International Trade: Patterns, Ports and the WTO · NCERT: Class 12, Ch 8 "International Trade"
Meaning
An inland port is located away from the sea coast. It is linked to the sea by a river or a canal. Usually only flat-bottomed ships or barges (flat boats for carrying goods) can reach it, because rivers and canals are shallower than the sea. Inland ports matter because they bring sea trade deep into a country's interior.
Example
Kolkata in West Bengal is an inland port on the Hugli, a branch of the Ganga. In the world, Manchester is linked to the sea by the Manchester Ship Canal, Memphis lies on the Mississippi, and Mannheim and Duisburg lie on the Rhine.
Don't confuse with
- Land-locked harbour: a coastal harbour almost enclosed by land, such as Visakhapatnam. An inland port lies far from the coast.
- Out port: a deep-water port built away from a parent port for ships too big to reach it, such as Piraeus for Athens.
Related concepts
- Industrial port
- Commercial port
- Comprehensive port
- Out port
- Oil port
- Port of call
- Packet station
- Entrepot port
- Naval port
- Rotterdam