The islands are connected with sleek private ferries and with “government ferries” that look more like factory ships with a passenger cabin below deck, at 1/10 the cost.

Port Blair’s old harbor is mostly silted up so they moved all ferries to a new one further away. It appears that they forgot a few ships in the old harbor though, some dating back to the Japanese occupation in WWII, and now pitiful rust buckets. Several more have sunk but clearing them away is too expensive.