After Alliance, another tug in distress off Mangaluru coast, rescue efforts on
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May 16, 2021 12:23 IST
Efforts were on to trace six missing crew from tug Alliance; one crew member slips into raging Arabian Sea from container vessel SSL Ganga.
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Efforts were on to trace six missing crew from tug Alliance; one crew member slips into raging Arabian Sea from container vessel SSL Ganga. Close on the heels of tug Alliance capsizing off Mangaluru coast on May 15 leaving one dead, five missing and three surviving, another tug, Coromondel, with unknown number of occupants, drifted north on May 15 evening and was near Padubidri beach rocks on May 16. The Indian Coast Guard has been making efforts to rescue the crew amid raging waves.
PANAJI/BENGALURU/KOCHI: Cyclone Tauktae tore through coastal Karnataka and Goa on Sunday, with eight people dead and 300 houses damaged in Karnataka even as hundreds were evacuated while leaving large parts of Goa without power.
Airline operations were suspended in Goa and many trains were cancelled. As many as 29 people have been reported missing, 10 each from Kerala and Tamil Nadu and nine from Karnataka.
Tauktae, which is turning into a “very severe cyclonic storm” and is headed towards Gujarat, tore through the coast of Karnataka on Sunday, unleashing heavy rain in seven districts of the state. Among those who died is a three-year-old boy and two stranded on a stricken tugboat along the coast.
Major ports handle 30% more cargo in April
May 14, 2021
Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust reported a 60 per cent rise in volumes to 6.32 mt (3.95 mt)
Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust reported a 60 per cent rise in volumes to 6.32 mt (3.95 mt)×
The dozen ports handled 61.52 mt reversing the falling trend last year
Cargo handled at India’s dozen state-owned major ports soared 29.52 per cent in April to 61.52 million tonnes (mt) from 47.50 mt a year ago.
With the exception of New Mangalore Port Trust which posted a decline of 3.84 per cent, all the other ports got off to a solid start in the first month of the current fiscal, reversing the fall in traffic seen last year due to the coronavirus-induced demand compression.
Two Navy ships INS Tarab, INS Kochi arrives at NMPT with Oxygen donated by Kuwait Government
Mangaluru, May 11(UNI) The New Mangalore Port Trust (NMPT) on Tuesday handled two naval ships, INS Tarab and INS Kochi, that carried liquid medical oxygen containers, oxygen cylinders and concentrators donated by the Government of Kuwait.
In a tweet, Mansukh Mandaviya, Union Minister of State for Ports, Shipping and Waterways (I/C) & Chemicals & Fertilizers, said the clearance of oxygen cargo was being ensured with utmost priority.
The Indian Navy had launched ‘Samudra Setu-II’ last month to meet the country’s oxygen requirement amid the surge in Covid-19 cases.
Two more Naval vessels land with oxygen
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Two Indian Navy vessels INS Kochi and INS Tabar carrying liquid oxygen and high flow oxygen concentrators from Kuwait landed at New Mangalore Port here on Tuesday.
According to a press release from New Mangalore Port Trust (NMPT), INS Kochi brought three 20-tonne liquid oxygen containers, 40 pallets of one-tonne oxygen cylinders and two 10-litre high flow oxygen concentrators, while INS Tabar brought two 20-tonne containers of liquid oxygen and 30 pallets of one-tonne oxygen cylinders.
This consignment is the second tranche of medical aid donated by the Kuwait Government to the Indian Red Cross Society, the release said.