When the first of all Seamen welfare facilities was started in the Port of Cochin in 1943, it was only natural that it was named after this British liberal politician and a great visionary… thus was the birth of the favorite hub of many mariners of Kochi-
Port of Cochin, the Queen of Arabian sea housed in the Willingdon island is one of the major ports in the country and the one earmarked for a spurt of development activities in the coming years…
It is a located on a man-made island created from the materials dredged while deepening Port of Cochin and named after Lord Willingdon, the erstwhile governor of Madras and the 32nd Viceroy of India who was instrumental in the implementation of this mammoth project…..
