The traffic at the New Mangalore Port (NMPT) has grown 12.5% yoy in
2007-08 to 36 million tonnes from 32 million tonnes in 2006-07. In
2007-08 the rail-bound traffic grew by 105% to 61.85 lakh tonnes (from
30.18 lakh tonnes in 2006-07) and the container traffic has risen by
about 24% yoy in 2007-08.
In the performance review
meeting of NMPT held at the Ministry of Shipping, it was decided to
formulate plans for setting up a container terminals at NMPT. Also
decided to initiate preliminary discussions with various Oil PSUs and
Companies for exploring the possibility of setting up of an LNG
terminal at NMPT.
With commissioning of Deep Draft Multi
Purpose General Cargo Berth No.14 set up under the National Maritime
Development Programme (NMDP), the port is now equiped to handle vessels
upto 80000 DWT apart from enhancing the capacity of the company by 5
million tonne. Moreover the NMPT now also boosts with a
state-of-the-art modern cruise lounge providing excellent facilities to
the cruise passengers.
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