It set up Asia's first export-processing area in 1965 at Kandla, in Gujarat, to provide goods for the then Soviet Union.

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The small fishing port of Dwarka and the neighbouring harbour of Kandla were lashed with rain and winds of up to 150 kmh.

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To make things worse, a cyclone has devastated India's largest port, Kandla, killing more than 1, 000, and a poor crop has sent vegetable prices spiralling up.

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