Mangalore has emerged as the ‘Gateway of Karnataka’ with its all-weather port - the New Mangalore Port. The Port on the West Coast of India, midway between Mormugao and Cochin Ports, is a deep-sea, all-weather Port, conceived, designed and executed entirely by Indian engineering talent and skills. The Mangalore Harbour Project was started with the initiative of Mr. Srinivas Mallya in 1962.

The Port has a vast hinterland covering almost the whole of Karnataka and part of Andhra Pradesh and Kerala. It is served by both meter gauge and broad gauge railway lines and is well connected with Bangalore and Chennai and the national network. The Konkan Railway linking Manga- lore and Mumbai is a boon to the Port and its hinterland. The Port is provided with railway sidings connected with trunk railways with adequate storage space and facilities.

The National Highway 17 passes right opposite the Port making the Port directly accessible to the hinterland. The total land area of the Port is 2070 acres and water spread area is 280 acres. The nearest airport, Bajpe is 18 kms from the Port.

Location

New Mangalore port is located between 11.5o North and 19o North Latitudes and 74oE and 78oE Longitudes on the West of Cost of India.

Port Facilities

The Port facilities provided are to face the growing challenges and emerging needs of the 21st Century. The Port is well equipped to handle bulk, liquid chemicals, hazardous cargoes, crude and POL products, containers etc.

Berth Particulars

Sl. No.	Description of Berth	Draught (in mtrs.)	Length of Berth (in mtrs.)	Capacity (in lakh tonnes)
1.	Berth No. 1	6.50	125
2.	Berth No. 2	10.50	198
3.	Berth No. 3	10.30	198
4.	Berth No. 4	9.45	198	17.50
5.	Berth No. 5	9.10	198
6.	Berth No. 6	9.10	198
7.	Berth No. 7	9.10	198
8.	Berth No. 8 (Iron Ore Berth)	13.00 (with 1.0 on tide)	300	75.00
9.	Berth No. 9 (Upgraded oil jetty to handle LPG)	10.50	330	10.00
10.	Berth No. 10 (Crude Oil Jetty)	14.00	320	65.00
11.	Virtual Jetty	12.00	272	10.00

Floating Crafts

Cargo Handling Equipments

Transit Sheds/Overflow Sheds in the Wharf Area

Open Stackyard

Future Plans / Privatisation

Development Stage

The Government of India, MOST have sanctioned the scheme for creation of additionalport facilities to cater to the needs of the expansion of Mangalore Refinery from 3 to 9 MTPA, at an estimated cost of Rs. 236.50 crores including capitalised interest of Rs. 37 crores. The project is to be completed in all respects within a period of 30 months from the date of sanction. The main civil works under this project consists of construction of tanker jetty No. 3 and wharf wall and other building works.

The New Mangalore Port Trust Board has accorded its approval for the award of civil works contract for the construction of Tanker Jetty No. 3 and 4 and wharf wall of 350 mts. length in between Jetty No. 3 and 4 to Afcons Ltd., Mumbai at a cost of Rs. 48.77 crores. Work order was issued on 30.07.99 and the contractors have started mobilisation of equipment and materials. The Tanker Jetty No. 3 will be similar to Tanker Jetty No. 2 which was commissioned in April 1996 to cater to the MRPL’s crude and product traffic and forms a part of the expansion plans for processing crude from 3 to 9 million tonnes per annum. The tanker jetty No. 4 forms part of the Port’s 9th Plan Scheme and aims at meeting the POL/liquid cargo requirements of other users. The work of the construction of two jetties is likely to be completed within two years time. Once completed the crude/POL/other liquid bulk cargo handling capacity of the Port in its four jetties is projected to increase from the existing 7.5 million tonnes to 19.5 million tonnes per annum.

Newschemes/feasibility studies under progress

Modernisationof communication system.

Provision of pollution control facilities.

Providing Vessel Traffic Management System.

Infrastructure for container handling.

Additional fire fighting arrangements.

Feasibility study by RITES, New Delhi on Vision 2010.

Feasibility study by CLRI Madras on safety and risk analysis.

Construction of a new Administration office building complex at a cost of Rs. 9.20 crores.

Port facilities for MRPL expansion at a cost of Rs. 200crores.

Private sector participation / proposals

Additional port facilities to M/s. Mangalore Refinery & Petrochemicals Ltd. for expanding their refining capacity from 3 MPTA to 9 MPTA. Coal handling jetty on captive basis by M/s. Nagarjuna Power Corpn. Ltd.

New Mangalore Port has also received several proposals for setting up of port facilities in connection with setting up of POL handling facilities/Chemical Plants/LPG storage facilities in and around Mangalore. The various proposals under consideration are as under:

1. Allotment of land for storage of hazardous cargo/LPG:

This Port had invited open tenders for the allotment of two plots of 14.5 and 20 acres each for import of hazardous cargo and LPG respectively. The proposal to allot one plot of 14.5 acres to M/s. USTIL has also been approved by the Ministry.

2. Three acres of land has already been allotted to M/s. Universal Agro Exports, Madras for setting up of storage installation for non-hazardous liquid cargo. The firm has already commissioned their terminal.

3. Allotment of land for handling bulk cement and installation of the bagging plant:

Based on the competitive bidding L&T has been allotted two acres of land for the installation of a state of the art storage/bagging plant. Three cement silos of 5000 tonnes capacity each have been constructed in the area leased to them. The size of the silos is 14M x 31m height. An automatic bagging plant with a capacity of 90 tonnes per hour has also been installed. Provision also exists for bulk loading into cement tankers. They have guaranteed a traffic of three lakh tonnes per annum initially. The plant has been commissioned and the first vessels was handled during September 1998.

4. Strips of land for laying the pipelines for evacuating the liquid cargoes from the Oil Jetty have been allotted to Bharath Petroleum Corporation, Elf Gas (India) Ltd. and Hindustan Organic Chemicals Ltd.

5. Captive Power Plant at New Mangalore Port:

Detailed information has been submitted to Indian Ports Association for further action.

6. Kudremukh Iron Ore Co. Ltd. (KIOCL):

KIOCL propose to set up a pig iron and a Ductile Iron Pipe Plant of 2.00 lakh tonnes capacity located very near to this Port. The construction work of the plant is in progress.

Future Prospects Of The Port

The Port has entrusted to RITES, New Delhi a study for preparation of Feasibility Report of Land and Waterfront Allocation at this Port. The study carried out by them has confirmed that the New Mangalore Port will be called upon to handle a traffic of about 36.90 million tonnes per annum in the next five years. This Port has recently prepared a Perspective Plan for 2012 AD and the following port facilities are proposed to be provided.

Two bulk cargo terminals for handling thermal coal and coking coal on BOT basis.

Two liquid cargo jetties for handling the increased traffic due to MRPL expansion and for handling traffic of other multi-users.

One general cargo berth for handling the projected general cargo.

Traffic Handled

Commoditywise Imports and Exports at New Mangalore Port during 1996-97 to 1999-2000
(April to Dec.1999)