Karaikal District - Transportation

Transportation

Air

Nearest Domestic Airport is in Trichy (Trichirapalli). Indian Airlines connects Trichy with Chennai, Sharjah, Kuwait and Colombo. Sri Lankan Airlines Service connects Tiruchirapalli with Colombo and proposed service with Jaffna. Karaikal Airport is being constructed and will be completed by 2014. It will be the first airport in the country to be built entirely with private capital.

Train

Railway Station Karaikal and railway station at Nagore (15 km from Karaikal).

Road

Public Transport Many town buses are in operation in this district. They connect tourist places like Tirunallar, Nagore, Nagapattinam, Velankanni, Mayiladuthurai and Thiruvarur in Tamilnadu State. Many private and public buses with registration of Puducherry union territory and Tamil Nadu state are plying in this region. Long distance buses operated by Tamilnadu government from Nagapattinam to Chennai via Pondicherry, pass through this place. Government owned bus services and Pondicherry Tourism Development Corporation (PTDC) also runs long distance bus services between Karaikal and Pondicherry

Port

Karaikal Port Private Limited (KPPL), a private port developed by the Chennai based MARG Limited, became operational in April 2009. The port is located on the Eastern coast of India at keezhavanjore village in Karaikal District of Puducherry, around 300 km along the coast south of Chennai Port and around 360 km along the coast north of Tuticorin Port. The shoreline of the port is between 10o 50’56’’ N and 10o 49’44’’ N.

Loading and unloading of goods are usually carried on with the help of boats whenever water level is high in the river. The goods are brought to the warehouses without difficulty. There are storage facilities in the warehouses situated not far from Arasalar and Vanjiar. However, in view of existence of a port in Nagapattinam, this minor port does not have much importance.