New Mangalore Port was declared India’s 9th major port on 4 May 1974 and has been the New Mangalore Port Authority (NMPA) since 3 November 2021. It handled 46.01 million tonnes in 2024–25. Exports are mainly POL products, iron-ore pellets and containers; imports include crude for MRPL, cement, coal, fertiliser, edible oil and liquid chemicals.[1]
—NMPA calls it the deepest inner harbour on India’s west coast, with a 14 m draught, and India’s highest coffee-exporting port. Road, rail and air links run through three national highways, three zonal railways and Mangalore International Airport.[2]
—Oil and gas berths (permissible draught, quay length, dwt): Berth 10 crude/POL and Berth 11 POL, 14.0 m, 320 m, 85,000; Berth 12 POL/LPG/edible oil/bitumen/chemicals, 12.5 m, 320 m, 50,000; Berth 13 LPG/petrochemicals, 14.0 m, 350 m, 85,000; Berth 9 LPG/edible oil/bitumen/POL/chemicals, 10.5 m, 330 m, 45,000.[3]
—The SPM handles crude at 21 m for tankers up to 300,000 dwt. At 19.1 million tonnes it has the largest capacity of any single facility in the port’s 105-million-tonne total (31 March 2025).[3,4]
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