New Mangalore Port handle record containers

Mangalore: A record number of 786 twenty-foot equivalent units of containers were handled from a vessel in a single voyage at New Mangalore Port recently. A press release by the Traffic Manager of New Mangalore Port Trust (NMPT), Mr S. Gopalakrishna, said here on Tuesday.

A record number of 786 TEUs of containers were handled in a single voyage from m.v. Tiger Power, a container feeder line of Bengal Tiger Lines operating between Mangalore and Colombo, which called at the port on September 9, surpassing the earlier record of 543 TEUs set in April this year.

The release said that 129 TEUs were handled in a single shift and 304 TEUs in a single day from the same vessel on September 11.

The container traffic registered a growth of 80 per cent during the current fiscal.

Meanwhile, Relay Shipping has commenced a feeder line service between New Mangalore and Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust. The release said that m.v. O.E.L. Victory of Relay Shipping called at New Mangalore Port on Tuesday.

Commencement of the new line will be a boon to the importers and exporters of the region. The increase in the frequency of container vessels will help the trade and industry to move their cargo faster to the respective destinations, the release said. The port is gearing up to provide better infrastructure to handle container cargo, it added.