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[143] [144] Old Mangalore Port is a fishing port located at Bunder, Mangalore, where a large number of mechanised boats anchor. [145] The traffic at this port was 122,000 tonnes during the years 2003–04. [146] New Mangalore Port handled over 100,000 Twenty-foot equivalent units of containers during the years 2017–18. [147]
The first reference to Mangalore came from Pandyan king Chettian, who ruled the coastal region during 715 CE. He called the town Mangalapuram. [34] Mangalore is identified to be at the center of the Satyaputra Kingdom. The region later evolved to become what is present-day South Canara, with the spread of Tulu language. [35]
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 was a major port caught up in the Indian Ocean trade since times immemorial. The area around Mangalore along with St Mary's islands and Barcelor, also served as a maritime trade post for the Portuguese in Goa and Bombay, until Shivappa Nayaka defeated Portugal's armada in battle.
Its northern border Thalappady is located just 9 km south to Ullal, which is the southernmost portion of the major port city Mangalore, on the southwestern Malabar coast of India. Kasaragod is the northernmost district of Kerala and is also known as Saptha Bhasha Sangama Bhoomi (The place where Seven languages meets)