Assertion: port city | /r/CapableOf | develop as a point of transshipment
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text: The city is centred on the east bank of the Hugli (Hooghly) River , once the main channel of the Ganges (Ganga) River , about 96 miles (154 km) upstream from the head of the Bay of Bengal ; there the port city developed as a point of transshipment from water to land and from river to sea.