Mangalore:  Around 22000 tonnes of timber logs have been handled by the New Mangalore Port recently, This is the largest consignment ever handled from a single ship so far.

D. Mahadevaiah, Traffic Manager in-charge of New Mangalore Port Trust, in a press release said  the vessel m.v. Niamul Mowla with 19,673 pieces of timber logs weighing around 22,000 tonnes — called at the port on September 3. The entire consignment was loaded from Port of Yangon in Myanmar.Around 90 consignees located in Karnataka, Kerala and Maharashtra imported this consignment, he said.

The vessel is expected to sail out of the Port on September 15 after the unloading process was complete. Dix Shipping is the stevedores and steamer agents of the vessel, and Export Trade Links and Sri Ganesh Shipping Agency, are the clearing and forwarding agents.

During 2011-12, the port had handled 2.96 lakh tonnes of timber logs, against 1.87 lakh tonnes handled during the previous fiscal, registering a growth of 58 per cent.

The release said a delegation from the North Malabar Chamber of Commerce, Kannur,  which had been to the Port recently had assured to move cargo like timber, edible oil, plywood, textiles and scrap generated from Malabar region through New Mangalore Port.