Willington Island is an island in the backwaters of Kochi, one of the best natural harbours on the Malabar cost. Much of the island was reclaimed from the backwater, by dredging either side of a previously existing tinly natural island. soil around a previously existed, inorder to make the water on either side deep enough for ships to come into the harbor. Thus the island paved way for two separate shiping channels within the harbor, the Ernakulam channel and the Mattanchery channel.
The Willington Island is significant as the home for the Cochin Port Trust, as well as the Cochin Naval Base, the head quaters of the Southern Naval Command. Apart from that, there are numerous government bodies, functioning in the island, like the Central Institute of Fisheries Technology, a constituent unit of Indian Council of Agricultural Research. The island is also home for other establishments associated with the port namely, the Customs Office, more than two dozen export-import offices, warehouses, a few premium hotels and business centers.
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