Thoothukudi is an Industrial City and it has transport connections via road, rail, sea and air. After Chennai, Thoothukudi is the only city in Tamil Nadu to have all four means of transport.

Roadways

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Thoothukudi City is well connected by road. The Major Highways are, * Thoothukudi– Madurai– Tiruchirappalli– Viluppuram- Vellore ( NH-38) * Thoothukudi– Tirunelveli ( NH-138) * Thoothukudi– Ramanathapuram- Nagapattinam- Puducherry- Tindivanam- Chengalpattu- Chennai (NH-32) * Thoothukudi– Palayakayal– Tiruchendur- Kudankulam- Kanyakumari (SH-176)

Railways

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Thoothukudi railway station Tuticorin railway station is a train station connecting the city of Thoothukudi in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The station belongs to the Madurai railway division, a part of Southern Railway Zone. Facilities The station has a compute ...

is one of the oldest railway stations in India and South Indian Railway began a ''Madras – Thoothukudi'' service connecting with the boat to Ceylon in 1899. The station was declared as Model Station in 2007 and several infrastructure developments are in process. There is also another station, known as ''Thoothukudi Melur''. It Has Suburban Stations Such As

Airport

Tuticorin Airport Tuticorin Airport is a domestic airport located from Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu, serving the districts of Thoothukkudi, Tirunelveli, Tenkasi, and Kanniyakumari in southern Tamil Nadu. It is west of the city centre on Thoothukkudi-Tirunelvel ...

is a domestic airport located from

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serving the districts of

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and

Kanniyakumari Kanniyakumari (; , referring to Devi Kanya Kumari), also known as Cape Comorin, is a city in Kanniyakumari district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. It is the southern tip of the Indian subcontinent and the southernmost city in mainland Ind ...

in southern Tamil Nadu. It is located 15.6 km west from the city centre on Thoothukudi-Tirunelveli NH-7A. It was inaugurated by former

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on 30 April 1992 and the former

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for

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and

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presided with her. The airport was ISO 9001:2015 quality certified on 13 April 2018. It is the fifth busiest airport in Tamil Nadu after

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, Coimbatore,

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and

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are operating 4 flights direct daily to

and 1 flight direct daily to

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. The nearest international airport is

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, which is about 198 km by road.

Seaport

V.O. Chidambaranar Port Authority V.O. Chidambaranar Port Authority is a port in Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu, and is one of the 13 major ports in India. It was declared to be a major port on 11 July 1974. It is second largest port in Tamil Nadu and third largest container terminal ...

is one of the 13 major ports in

. It was declared to be a major port on 11 July 1974. It is second-largest port in

and fourth-largest container terminal in India. This is the third international port in Tamil Nadu and its second all-weather port. was constituted under the Major Port Authorities Act, 2021. It is an ISO 9001:2008,ISO 14001:2004 and ISPS compliant port. The port is named after

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, the eminent freedom fighter who was well known as ''Kappalottiya Thamizhan'', meaning ''The Tamizhan man who rode the ship''. V.O. Chidambaranar Port Authority is the only port in

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to provide a direct weekly container service to the

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(transit time 22 days). There are regular weekly direct services to

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(transit time 17 days), China (transit time 10 days) and Red Sea Ports (transit time 8 days). A luxury ferry liner, the

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, is conducting a ferry service to

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. Ferry services between the two countries have been revived after more than 20 years.

Spaceport

The

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is to set up a new Rocket launch pad near Kulasekaranpattinam in

Thoothukudi district Thoothukudi District is one of the List of districts of Tamil Nadu, 38 districts of Tamil Nadu States and territories of India, state in southern India. The district was formed by bifurcation of Tirunelveli district on 20 October 1986. Tuticori ...

. The

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(ISRO) has begun work on its second Rocket launching pad or Spaceport, which will be Kulasekaranpattinam, Thoothukudi in Tamil Nadu. Like the Sriharikota spaceport in the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Thoothukudi was selected as a spaceport due to its nearness to the equator. "A rocket launch site should be on the east coast and near the equator. And Thoothukudi district satisfies that condition", a former ISRO official stated.

References

External links

Thoothukudi

Thoothukudi Corporation

Tuticorin Port Trust

V.O. Chidambaranar Port Authority

Tuticorin Churches
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