The classification of Indian ports into major, minor and intermediate has an administrative significance.

Several of these 187 minor and intermediate ports are merely "notified"; little or no cargo handling actually takes place.

It provided for a minor port, and is also a prime location for herring runs.

It was at one time a reasonably prosperous minor port.

Other than these, there are 187 minor and intermediate ports, 43 of which handle cargo.

The distinction between major and minor ports is not based on the amount of cargo handled.

This version includes land, islands, major and minor ports.

Currently it is a minor port in the country, but it handle cargo operations.

However before 1780 Runcorn could not have been described as even a minor port.

Karnataka has one major and ten minor ports in this coastal belt.