Hyderabad - After being a dead dock town for ages, Machilipatnam is waking up and all set to become a port of call again. The ancient port city at the mouth of the River Krishna on the Bay of Bengal, which thrived in the 1st century AD as Masula, and then again shone in the 16th to 18th centuries before losing anchorage to Madras on the east coast due to a shift in British Policy, is seeing frenzied activity.

Around 48 per cent of the construction of a new Greenfield port at Manginapudi in . . .