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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 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. The minor ports are located at Karwar, Old Mangalore, Belekeri, Tadadi, Honnavar, Bhatkal, Kundapur, Hangarakatta, Malpe, and Padubidri. Of these, Karwar is the only all-weather port ...
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. O. Chidambaranar Port: 1974 2.428 km2 Thoothukkudi: Tamil Nadu: 111.46 12 Kamarajar ...
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.
1652 Sanson Map of India. Mangalore was named after the deity Mangaladevi, the presiding deity of the Mangaladevi Temple, [12] or a synonym of the goddess Tara of the Vajrayana Buddhist sect. [13] According to local legend, a princess named Parimala or Premaladevi from Malabar [14] renounced her kingdom and became a disciple of Matsyendranath, the founder of the Nath tradition. [15]
Panambur Beach is a beach on the shores of the Arabian Sea in the city of Mangalore in the Indian state of Karnataka. It is the most popular, well connected and the most visited beach of Karnataka. [1] Panambur beach is about 10 km (6.2 mi) north of Mangalore city center [2] and comes under the administration of Mangalore City Corporation. It ...
Mangalore skyline. Industrial and commercial activities dominate Mangalore's economy. 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.
It originates in the Western Ghats and is a distributary of the Netravati River, which empties into the Arabian Sea, south of Mangalore. It gets its name from the town Gurupura, situated near Mangalore. The New Mangalore Port and Mangalore Chemicals and Fertilizers are situated on its northern banks.