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The Hindu
15-05-2025
- Business
- The Hindu
NMPA hosts ‘Awards Nite' to commemorate highest-ever cargo-handling
The New Mangalore Port Authority (NMPA) hosted an 'Awards Nite' event on Wednesday, May 14, to commemorate its historic achievement of handling the highest-ever cargo throughput of 46.01 million tonnes during 2024-25, compared to the previous record of 45.7 million tonnes set in 2023-24. Dakshina Kannada MP Captain Brijesh Chowta inaugurated the event in the presence of Port Chairman A.V. Ramana, Deputy Chairperson S. Shanthi, Customs Commissioner P. Vinitha Sekhar and others. Capt. Chowta congratulated NMPA on its achievement during its golden jubilee year and lauded the Port's consistent progress despite global disruptions like the Russia-Ukraine war and Red Sea crisis. Emphasising the role of digitisation and infrastructure development, he assured continued support from the Central government to make NMPA a hub of logistics and trade facilitation in the region by setting up skill development centres, the Maritime University, etc. The event recognised the outstanding performing stakeholders, including importers, exporters, terminal operators, shipping agents, port users and stevedores across various categories, acknowledging their contributions to the Port's success.
The Hindu
23-04-2025
- Business
- The Hindu
Udupi shipyard delivers first of 3,800 T dry cargo vessel to Norwegian company
Udupi Cochin Shipyard Ltd. (USCL) on Wednesday delivered the first in a series of six 3,800 T dead-weight dry cargo vessels, Wilson Eco 1, to M/s. Wilson Ship Management AS, Norway, the largest short sea shipping company of Europe in Mangaluru. The formal delivery programme was organised at New Mangalore Port here in the presence of New Mangalore Port Authority (NMPA) chairman A.V. Ramana and senior officers of NMPA. Senior officials of M/s Wilson Ship Management AS, Einar Torsnes, Chief Financial Officer, Sergey Bogdashov, New Build Superintendent and the Wilson site team were present. USCL CEO A Harikumar, General Manager CEO, UCSL and Sivaram N Swamy and others were present. In the last three years, Udupi shipyard in a release here said it has constructed and delivered eight aluminium hulls for Cochin Shipyard Ltd. for the Kochi Water Metro Project; eight tuna long liner cum gillnetters under the Pradhan Mantri Mathsya Sampada Yojana; two 62 tonne bollard pull ASTDS tugs to M/S Ocean Sparkle Ltd., an Adani harbour services company, and two 70-tonne bollard pull ASTDS tugs to M/s Polestar Maritime Ltd., complying with the Atma Nirbhar Bharat initiative of the Union government. The shipyard has also signed orders for construction of another 11 70-T bollard pull tugs with M/s Ocean Sparkle and one 70-T bollard pull tug with M/s Polestar Maritime. The contracts signed with Ocean Sparkle Limited for construction of eleven 70-T tugs is the largest series tug construction order ever signed by an Indian shipyard. Wilson Eco 1 is designed as an all-weather ship for unrestricted operation with unmanned machinery space certification. It is also equipped with all navigation and communication equipment as per the latest class and flag requirements. Under 'Make in India Make for the World' initiative of UCSL, the shipyard has used steel manufactured domestically for construction of the entire vessel, including the piping systems.
