The Goa International Airport is a civil enclave at INS Hansa, a naval airfield located at Dabolim near Vasco da Gama. Domestic air routes criss cross the airport. Along with these, international airports like Doha, Dubai, Sharjah, Kuwait, in the middle east are frequented by Air Arabia, Air India, Go India, …
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The Goa International Airport is a civil enclave at INS Hansa, a naval airfield located at Dabolim near Vasco da Gama. Domestic air routes criss cross the airport. Along with these, international airports like Doha, Dubai, Sharjah, Kuwait, in the middle east are frequented by Air Arabia, Air India, Go India, SpiceJet, IndiGo, Oman Air, and Qatar Airways. Flights during night have recently been inaugurated with a greenfield airport being constructed and is to be hopefully finished by 2022. Goa’s state bus corporation or the Kadamba Transport Corporations like Panaji Margao, and other remote parts of the state. The state’s public transport mainly consists of private intra city buses, which touch the main areas as well as villages. Goa has National Hightway 66 linking it to Mumbai in the North and Mangalore in the South. National Hightway 44 runs through the state of Goa, linking Panaji to Belgaum across Goa from west to east, and other Goan cities in the Deccan. The Mormugao Port at Cortalim is connected by National Hightway 366 and National Hightway 66 and these two national highways again connect at Verna near Diabolim a soon to be built greenfield airport. National Hightway 768 links Panaji and Ponda to National Hightway 4.
When it comes to railways, Goa has two rail lines - one run by South Western Railway, and the other run by Konkan Railway. The former line connects Goa to Belgaum, Vasco da Gama, Hubli, and Karnataka, via Margao. The Konkan railway line was built much later and connects the major cities along the West Coast.
Goa also encounters transportation, mainly industrial, via sea. The sea at Mormugao handles coal, mineral ore, petroleum, and international freight containers.
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