New Mangalore Port Trust (NMPT) saw a growth of 23.57 per cent in handling of LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) cargo in the first four months of the current financial year.

Mr S. Gopalakrishna, Traffic Manager of NMPT, said the port handled 7.13 lakh tonnes of LPG in the first four months of the current financial year against 5.77 lakh tonnes in the corresponding period of the previous fiscal, recording a growth of 23.57 per cent during the period. NMPT tops the LPG cargo handling sector in the country, he said.

The port handled a record two lakh tonnes of LPG in July 2011, the highest quantity of LPG handled in a month so far. The previous record was in March 2011 at 1.86 lakh tonnes of LPG, he said.

The port handled 1.91 million tonnes of LPG during 2010-11 against 1.63 million tonnes in 2009-10.

HEAVY CARGO

The port handled 23 heavy consignments from the vessel m.v. Svenja, from August 1 to 3. These consignments were brought from South Korea for the third phase expansion of Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd (MRPL). The maximum weight of one of the consignments was 777 tonnes with a maximum length of 66 m.

After discharge of all the consignments, the vessel sailed out on August 3, he said.

CONTAINERS

The container traffic at the port witnessed a growth of 17.62 per cent in the first four months of the fiscal. The port handled 17,262 TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units) of containers during April-July of the current financial year against 14,676 TEUs in the corresponding period of previous year.

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