Shree Mahavir Courier Branches in Thane

About Thane — A Brief History

Thane sits on the eastern edge of the Mumbai metropolitan region, where the Salsette island meets the mainland across a series of creeks and tidal channels. The town is one of the oldest urban settlements in the area: Greek and Arab traders mention it as Tagara, the Portuguese held it as Tana from the early sixteenth century, and the British later turned it into the headquarters of their Bombay Presidency's mainland district. The first passenger train in India ran from Boribunder in Mumbai to Thane in April 1853, with hundreds of cheering townspeople watching the engine arrive.

For most of the twentieth century Thane was a quiet textile and fishing town, with mills along the creek and salt pans on the marshes. The post-1990 growth of Mumbai pushed the city outwards, and Thane has become a busy residential and IT-services hub. The lake city of Thane has more than thirty natural lakes, with the Talao Pali in the heart of the town and the larger Yeoor hills on the eastern fringe. The famous Sanjay Gandhi National Park, with its 2,500-year-old Kanheri caves, runs along the city's western boundary.

Today Thane is a major industrial and commercial centre in its own right, with the chemical and pharmaceutical belt of Wagle Estate, the Bhiwandi logistics cluster (where most of Mumbai's wholesale godowns now sit), and the IT and BPO offices around Ghodbunder Road. Shree Mahavir Courier's Thane branches handle a heavy daily flow of factory papers, IT and BPO documents, and family parcels for the city and the smaller towns of Bhiwandi, Mira-Bhayandar, Kalyan-Dombivli and the rural Murbad-Shahapur belt every working day.