01 — Local economy
Business in Visakhapatnam
Deep-water ports at Visakhapatnam and Gangavaram handle iron ore, coal, steel and containers, feeding an industrial base that includes the Rashtriya Ispat Nigam steel plant, an HPCL refinery and NTPC's Simhadri power station. Pharmaceutical makers cluster at Jawaharlal Nehru Pharma City in Parawada, and Hindustan Shipyard and the Eastern Naval Command support ship-repair and defence engineering firms.
Also known as Vizag, Vishakhapatnam and Waltair.
Where software helps: Ship-repair contractors and port-service firms here quote, staff and bill each job separately, so they need job-wise costing of labour, spares and subcontracts, plus prompt billing when the scope changes mid-job.