Driven by the fact that more than 50 % of India's trade passes through the Far Eastern Naval Command off Port Blair on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
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Officials said they were moving the front-line ships from their eastern naval command in the Bay of Bengal to their western command off Bombay, in the Arabian Sea.
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The Eastern naval Command has the states of Andhra Pradesh, Orissa, West Bengal and Tamil Nadu, and the island chain of Andaman and Nicobar under its area of responsibility.
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On August 1971, the Indian Navy transferred the, it's aircraft carrier, to the Eastern Naval Command in Visakhapatnam that forced the Pakistan Navy to adjust its submarine operations.
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A naval base is to be set up under the ambit of Eastern Naval Command to strengthen the surveillance in the Gulf of Mannar and to safeguard any possible aggression in the region.
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It was planned to be located within a radius of approximately 200 kilometres ( 124.27 statute miles ) from Visakhapatnam, the headquarters of the navy's Eastern Naval Command.
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Vice Admiral Premvir S . Das, commander-in-chief of India's eastern naval command, was quoted as saying the carrier would be built at Cochin in southern India.
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Admiral Mohammad Shariff, who was Rear-Admiral at that time, and the principle commander of Eastern Naval Command, released his autobiography, entitled, " Admiral's Diary ".
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"Kulish " was part of a seven-ship fleet which represented the Eastern Naval Command at Indian Navy's annual TROPEX exercise, which concluded on 1 March 2013.
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On December 16, Rear-Admiral Mohammad Shariff surrendered his TT pistol to Vice-Admiral R . N . Krishna Eastern Naval Command at 4 : 31pm ( 14 : 31hrs ).
