Mangalore, April 12: M V brilliance of the seas called at the New Mangalore Port on Thursday with 1938 passengers and 863 crew members on board.
This is her repeated call to the Port after the first call on April 1. This giant luxury cruise vessel with a length (LOA) of 294 metres has been handled at Berth No.14 .
Around 1650 passengers, who came on board the vessel, toured around Mangalore in luxury buses arranged by the local tour operators and visited various places like cashew processing units, old temples, Jain Basadi, Aloysius Chappel, Artisan Heritage Village- Piikula, City Malls, etc.
The vessel sailed to Goa in the evening. Dr P Tamilvanan, Chairman has stated that this is the 3rd Cruise vessel calling at the Port during the beginning of the current financial year 2012-13.
Around 4000 passengers have so far arrived in these three vessels. The feedback from the Captain and Owners of the vessel is very good and they are interested to visit the port again. M/s J M Baxi and Co are the agents of the vessel.
In another development, NMPT witnessed a record handling of four rakes in a day on 10-4-2012 with an average turn round time of three hours on par with mechanized rail handling system.
The first container rake from Mangalore to Bangalore commenced operation by Container Corporation of India (CONCOR) on April 10, which will further boost the growth of container traffic at the Port. The first rake from Bangalore to Mangalore commenced on December 17, 2011.
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