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Poompuhar Shipping Corporation founded

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Poompuhar Shipping Corporation founded
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The state-owned Poompuhar Shipping Corporation was founded; it later ran the ferries to the Vivekananda Rock at Kanyakumari.

Poompuhar Shipping Corporation was founded by the Government of Tamil Nadu on 11 April 1974. It is a public sector shipping corporation under the state's highways and minor ports department. It handles shipping of coal for the state's power stations and runs the passenger ferries between Kanyakumari and the Vivekananda Rock Memorial. It was named after the ancient Chola port of Poompuhar.

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