COMMISSIONERATE OF CUSTOMS -MANGALORE  

Back Ground             

The New Mangalore Port, the only Major port of Karnataka was declared as the 9th Major port on 04th May’1974 and was formally inaugurated on 11th January’1975 by the then Prime Minister of India Smt. Indira Gandhi. The traffic in the Port has been steadily increasing through the years. The following table illustrates the same :

(Traffic in Million tones)

  1994-95 1995-96 1996-97 1997-98 1998-99 1999-2000 (Estimate)
Imports 1.64 1.88 4.48 6.10 6.89 8.45
Exports 6.36 7.00 7.97 9.18 7.31 9.15
Total 8.00 8.88 12.45 15.28 14.20 17.60

Mangalore Customs Commissionerate was created vide Notification No.20/97-CUS (NT) dated 07.07.97 and brought into force vide Notification No.32/97 Cus (NT) dated 16.07.97. The jurisdiction of this Commissionerate extends to 17 Districts of Karnataka, i.e., entire area covered by Dakshina Kannada, Udupi, Madikeri, Hassan, Chikmagalur, Shimoga, Uttara Kannada, Dharwad, Belgaum, Bijapur, Bidar, Bagalkot, Gulbarga, Gadag, Koppal, Bellary and Raichur Districts. The Commissionerate covers the entire coastal Karnataka having a coastline of over 300 Kms. The coast is prone to landing of smuggled goods particularly during the fair weather season from September to May when southwest Monsoon is not active.

This Commissionerate has two Custom Houses, one at Mangalore and another at Karwar. Major imports at Mangalore are Crude Oil, Edible oil, LPG and Timber. Major exports are Iron Ore and Granite Blocks. At Karwar, the major imports are Furnace oil, Edible oil and Rock Phosphate and major exports are Phosphoric acid and Granite blocks.

REVENUE

The revenue collection of this Commissionerate has been steadily increasing over the years. The total revenue collection during the year 2000-2001 was Rs.1282.62 crore which is 97.76 % of the target of Rs.1312 Crore fixed for this Commissionerate. The following table shows the details of revenue realisation for the last 4 years and up to January 2002:

REVENUE REALISATION IN THE LAST 4 YEARS :

                                                                                                                      (Rs. in crore)

Year

Target

Actual Realisation

% Of Realisation

1997-98

930.00

761.84

81.92

1998-99

912.00

675.66

74.09

1999-00

985.00

1191.14

120.93

2000-01

1312.00

1282.62

97.76

2001-02

1398.00

579.96

41.48

REVENUE FROM MAJOR COMMODITIES FOR THE LAST 4 YEARS

                                                                                                    (Rs. in Crores)

Sl.No. Commodity

1997-98

1998-99

1999-00

2000-01 2001-02

1

Petroleum Crude

548.06

365.44

707.56

763.66

266.74

2

Commercial Butane

87.45

122.06

183.71

152.19

95.73

3

Misc. Chemical

34.35

22.07

33.32

27.25

25.09

4

Project Import

47.69

45.09

57.58

128.23

0

5

Animal/Veg Fat/ Oils

33.66

41.97

81.36

122.12

110.16

6

Plastic & Articles

0.76

0.38

0.07

0.01

0

7

S.K.O

1.27

75.97

76.43

14.33

15.31

8

F.O

-

-

9.84

14.05

32.22

9

Timber

-

-

22.15

23.67

15.27

  TOTAL

755.24

672.98

1172.02

1245.51

560.52

MAJOR IMPORTERS DURING THE LAST 4 YEARS

Sl. No. Name of the importer 1997-98 1998-99 1999-00 2000-01 2001-02
1 MRPL (crude)

548.06

410.53

742.06

763.65

266.74

2 HPCL (LPG)

89.08

122.06

182.62

147.43

77.71

3 HOCL (Misc. chem.)

5.11

6.36

7.66

2.54

0

4

Ruchisoya Industries (Veg. Oils)

12.48

8.60

14.84

54.40

47.74

5

Lanyard Foods Ltd. (Veg. Oils)

12.24

24.92

33.45

44.08

0

6

Koramandal Petro Pvt.Ltd.(SKO)

0

10.11

4.25

0.64

0

7

Enrico Marketing P. Ltd. (Veg. Oils)

0

6.43

0.59

0.00

0

8

Yeses Intl. Ltd. (SKO)

0

0

14.05

5.20

0

9

Seven Seas Petro Products (SKO)

0

0

5.04

0.84

0

10

M K . Agrotech

0

0

0

0

3.13

11

SDV OIL

0

0

0

0

8.54

12

Parisons Mill

0

0

0

0

9.52

13

Bee- Am Chem

0

0

0

0

3.91

14

Indian Farmer Co. op. Ltd

0

0

0

0

1.95

15

ELF Gas

0

0

0

0

4.90

16

Indian Potash

0

0

0

0

4.04

17

Parison Agro Tech

0

0

0

0

21.12

18

BASF

0

0

0

0

185

19

Pure chemicals

0

0

0

0

1.45

20

MCF

0

0

0

0

5.28

 GLIMPSE OF  NEW MANGALORE PORT 

In the 9th Plan document, the Govt. of India has considered the following traffic projections through its eleven major ports :

(Traffic in Million Tonnes)

Year             Total Traffic        Containers           TEUs (in millions)

2001-02             423.94                38.66                       3.22

M/s. RITES in their Report Vision 2020 has estimated the following traffic.

(Traffic in Million Tonnes)

Year

Total Traffic

Containers

TEUs

2001-02

415.06

40.73

3.39

2006-07

612.65

71.78

5.98

2011-12

865.92

115.60

9.63

2016-17

1129.40

169.85

14.15

2020-21

1273.15

208.10

17.30

An overall growth of about 8 to 9% is projected for the above period which means that matching facilities are to be planned and executed in the Ports to avoid congestion of traffic. A number of new ports are coming up in the private sector in the states of Gujarat and Maharashtra to cater to the growth in traffic, which means competition to the existing ports controlled by the Government which in turn leads to the fact that the existing ports have to wake up and plan and execute major improvement in the existing facilities and infrastructure.

The commodity wise break up of the traffic projections for NMPT envisaged by M/s. RITES in the VISION 2020 Report is as under :

Year

Liquid Bulk Cargo

Dry Bulk Cargo

Break up of Bulk Cargo

Grand Total

     

Containers

Others

Total

 

2001-02

16.43

10.92

0.1

1.09

1.19

29.73

2006-07

24.80

12.95

0.2

1.61

1.81

42.37

2011-12

25.20

15.95

0.4

2.26

2.66

46.47

2016-17

30.20

17.95

0.8

2.88

3.68

55.51

2019-20

35.20

17.95

1.0

3.33

4.33

61.80

Advantages for import through Mangalore

  1. Only deep sea all weather Port of Karnataka with a strong base of Captive users like KIOCL, M.C.F., MRPL, HPCL, IPWC, IMC, Universal Agro, L&T etc.
  2. Deepest inner harbour in the country with a draft of 14 M at all tides, capable of handling vessels of 1,20,000 DWT.
  3. Minimum strength of staff and cargo workers compared to all other major Port in the country.
  4. Ideal for Corporatisation with more focus on efficient cargo handling and quick decisions.

NMPT-Transshipment Container Terminal of the Future:

  1. The container traffic has been re-introduced at Mangalore since March 2000 Compared to all other neighbouring ports of India vix. Tuticorin, Cochin, Goa, MGPT, JNPT and Kandla, NMPT has got tremendous scope for development as a container transshipment terminal on the west coast of India with a draft of 14 M and a straight channel of 7 ˝ Kms. Length. Adequate area is also available for container stackyard both inside and outside the harbour. The Port is well connected with the southern railway and Konkan railway . There is a proposal to develop Inland Container Depot by CONCOR in NMPT area. They have identified an area of 5 acres in the Marshalling yard for this purpose.

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