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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 ...
New Mangalore Port (2010–11). Total traffic handled: 67.30 MTA. Total imports handled: 23.6 MTA. Total exports handled: 32.9 MTA. Number of vessels: 1,186 Cruise vessels: 26 Revenue: US$65 million Karwar Port (2007–08) Total cargo handled: 2.7 MTA Total imports and exports: 6 MTA Revenue: US$2.7 million 25 Private liquid cargo tanks: 75,000 MT
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.
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 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$51.65 million) during 2012–13 [105] and ₹ 27.91 billion (US$322.47 million) during December 2018. [106]
[12] [13] Mangalore's economy is dominated by the industrial, commercial, agricultural processing and port-related activities. Karnataka's 2nd biggest industrial area-Baikampady is in Mangalore. The New Mangalore Port is India's seventh largest port, in terms of cargo handling. It handles 75 per cent of India's coffee exports and the bulk of ...
According to Constitution of India, maritime transport is to be administered by both the Central and the State governments. While the central government's shipping ministry administers the major ports, the minor and intermediate ports are administered by the relevant departments or ministries in the nine coastal states of Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Odisha ...
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.