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New Mangalore Port or New Mangalore Port Trust(NMPT) is an all-weather port at Panambur, Mangalore in Karnataka state in India. The total land area of the port is approximately 480 hectares (1,200 acres). The New Mangalore Port is the deepest inner harbour on the west coast. [3] It is the only major port of Karnataka and the seventh largest ...
The development of ports is a state subject, and the Government of Karnataka established the Department of Ports and Inland Water Transport in 1957. The department maintains one major port and ten minor ports between Mangalore in the south and Karwar in the north. The only major port is the New Mangalore Port.
[146] [147] Old Mangalore Port is a fishing port located at Bunder, Mangalore, where a large number of mechanised boats anchor. [148] The traffic at this port was 122,000 tonnes during the years 2003–04. [149] New Mangalore Port handled over 100,000 Twenty-foot equivalent units of containers during the years 2017–18. [150]
Mormugao Port: 1985 Mormugao: Goa: 63.4 6 Mumbai Port: 1873 Mumbai: Maharashtra: 84 7 New Mangalore Port: 1974 8.22 km2 Mangaluru: Karnataka: 114.96 8 Paradip Port: 1966 25.44 km2 Paradeep: Odisha: 289.75 9 Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port: 1870 Kolkata/Haldia: West Bengal: 92.77 10 Visakhapatnam Port: 1933 Visakhapatnam: Andhra Pradesh: 143.68 11 V ...
[30] [31]: 415 Mangalore is the second largest city of Karnataka, and ninth largest port of India, providing the state with access to the Arabian Sea coastline. [3] Mangalore experienced significant growth in the decades 1970–80, with the opening of New Mangalore Port in 1974 and commissioning of Mangalore Chemicals & Fertilizers Limited in 1976.
Sea entrance to Mangalore Harbour. There is a Nandaneshwara temple in Panambur. The sea port is near to Surathkal railway station on the Mumbai-Mangalore railway route. Many small, medium and large scale industries are located at Panambur including Mangalore Chemicals and Fertilizers and Kudremukh Iron Ore Company Limited.
Mangalore is the only city in the state of Karnataka to have all modes of transport — air, road, rail and sea — as well as being one of only five cities in India to have both a major port and an international airport. Around 75% of India's coffee, timber and cashew nuts exports are handled by the New Mangalore Port. [1]
The Dakshina Kannada district has a seaport at Panambur named New Mangalore Port. The seaport managed by New Mangalore Port Trust handles cargo, timber, petroleum and coffee exports. [ 109 ] It is one of the major seaports of India.