Transport

Transportation

Air

The nearest airport is located at Rajahmundry, about 65 km.Rajahmundry City Airport has services to Chennai,Hyderabad, Vijayawada and Bangalore.  Kingfisher Airlines, Jet Airways  and  Spice Jet are the airlines operating

here. The other nearest major airport is at Visakhapatnam at a distance of 145 km and has the services of many airline operators to major cities in the country. 

kakinada Railway Terminus (cct,coa new,coa,Slo) 

As a city located on the sea shore, Kakinada is a railway terminus. It has five railway stations, namely Kakinada Town Junction (1.2 km), Kakinada Port (1.8 km), Kakinada Port New (4.1 km), and Sarpavaram (6.5 km) Samalkot jn(13 km) Through a branch line, Kakinada is connected to Samalkot Junction (13 km) which is on the Chennai-Howrah trunk line, where almost all express trains stop to connect Kakinada with the important places of the country. There are direct daily trains running to Hyderabad, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Tirupati, Shirdi(tri weekly) and Bhavnagar (weekly) and also special trains running all through the year to Hyderabad and Ernakulam. There is a demand for construction of the long waited Kakinada – Pitapuram railway line of 21 km length which connects Kakinada to the main line apart from extending the Kakinada-Kotipalli railway line to Narsapur which will bring rail connectivity to Konaseema region.according to railway budjet few trains will be started to Mumbai,a/c train to secunderabad and howrah from kakinada.

Road

Good roads connect Kakinada with all the places within the state and rest of the country. NH-214 from Kathipudi to Ongole (both on NH-5) passes through Kakinada. A couple of state highways connect Kakinada to Rajahmundry and other places within the district. There is a proposal to develop the road between Kakinada and Suryapet via Rajahmundry into a National Highway which will reduce the distance between Kakinada and Hyderabad.The city roads were also so sapcious for the free flow of traffic.few roads are under widening process like main road temple street.etc.there was also aproposal to make NH-214 into 4 way road.