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The Mangalore Harbour Project was set up in the year 1962. The maritime works on the project commenced in 1968. The New Mangalore Port, the only major port of Karnataka was declared as the ninth major port on 4 May 1974 and was formally inaugurated by the then Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi on 11 January 1975.
[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.
The New Mangalore Port is India's seventh-largest container port. [75] It handles 75 percent of India's coffee exports and the bulk of its cashew nuts. [ 104 ] The Mangalore Customs Commissionerate collected a revenue of ₹ 4.47 billion (US$52.31 million) during 2012–13 [ 105 ] and ₹ 27.91 billion (US$326.63 million) during December 2018 ...
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.
The New Mangalore port was incorporated as the ninth major port in India on 4 May 1974. [158] This port handled 32.04 million tonnes of traffic in the fiscal year 2006–07 with 17.92 million tonnes of imports and 14.12 million tonnes of exports. The port also handled 1015 vessels including 18 cruise vessels during the year 2006–07.
The Kudremukh Iron Ore Company Ltd. plant in New Mangalore Port. The pellet plant, with a capacity of 3.5 million tons per annum, was commissioned at Mangalore in 1987. [3] The plant was stopped in 2011 but in 2014, it resumed producing and exporting pellets, running on ores supplied by NMDC Limited. [4]
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.
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.