Albert Sassoon would smile
As we heard about an initiative to give Sassoon Dock a facelift, we couldn’t help but imagine how the Jewish entrepreneur and visionary would have reacted to the news. He built the dock, Mumbai’s and all of western India’s first wet dock. It was opened on June 8, 1875. The dock’s size was estimated at 645 ft and its width was 292 ft.

The unmistakable entrance leading to Sassoon Dock