How much cargo did Visakhapatnam Port handle in the 2025-26 financial year?
- A.71.17 million metric tonnes
- B.81.17 million metric tonnes
- C.91.17 million metric tonnes
- D.101.17 million metric tonnes
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Explanation
The correct answer is 91.17 million metric tonnes. Sarbananda Sonowal told port employees that Visakhapatnam Port had handled this record quantity of cargo in the 2025-26 financial year, roughly 10 per cent more than the year before, and that it was the port's fourth consecutive year of growth. He added that in the seven months from 1 April to 31 October the port's cargo had risen by 4.44 million metric tonnes, or 8.88 per cent, over the same period a year earlier, and urged the staff to better the earlier target of 10 per cent growth. The figures in options A, B and D do not match the record the minister announced. The port also has one of the deepest container terminals among India's major ports, with a permissible draft of 16 metres, and is moving towards a landlord-port model to cut vessel turnaround time and logistics costs.
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Practice Questions
At which port did Sarbananda Sonowal dedicate a waterfront Port Promenade to the public in November 2026?
- A.Paradip Port
- B.Visakhapatnam Port
- C.Kandla Port
- D.Chennai Port
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The Union Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways, Sarbananda Sonowal, dedicated the new waterfront promenade at Visakhapatnam Port in Andhra Pradesh and on the same day laid foundation stones for four fresh works that together come to about Rs 560 crore.
Read the full explanation →The upgrade of the sewage treatment plant at Visakhapatnam Port supports which green port initiative of the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways?
- A.Harit Sagar
- B.Sagarmala
- C.Harit Tat
- D.Nile Sagar
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Sarbananda Sonowal laid the foundation stone for raising the capacity of the port's sewage treatment plant from 10 million litres a day to 15 million litres a day, which includes a new 5 million litre plant, at an estimated cost of about Rs 11 crore.
Read the full explanation →The export prohibition on black mass complements an incentive scheme of what size under the National Critical Mineral Mission?
- A.Rs 500 crore
- B.Rs 1,000 crore
- C.Rs 1,500 crore
- D.Rs 2,500 crore
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The Union Cabinet approved an incentive scheme of this size in September 2025 under the National Critical Mineral Mission, to build capacity for separating and producing critical minerals from secondary sources such as battery waste and electronic waste.
Read the full explanation →Which of these minerals is NOT listed among those recoverable from Lithium-Ion Battery Black Mass?
- A.Cobalt
- B.Nickel
- C.Manganese
- D.Cadmium
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Black mass, the powder obtained from shredding end-of-life lithium-ion batteries and battery manufacturing waste, holds recoverable quantities of lithium, cobalt, nickel and manganese, so options A, B and C are all named in the notification.
Read the full explanation →Under which ITC(HS) code has the export of Lithium-Ion Battery Black Mass been prohibited?
- A.85069000
- B.85491400
- C.81069200
- D.28459000
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The notification issued by the Directorate General of Foreign Trade names the item as Lithium-Ion Battery Black Mass falling under this code, which covers waste and scrap of primary cells, primary batteries and electric accumulators, along with spent cells and accumulators that are unsorted and carry no lead, cadmium or…
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