Mangalore, March 21: Cruise vessel M.V. Le Ponente called at NMPT on Monday, March 21. This is the 14th cruise vessel that called at the Port during the current financial year 2010-11.
The vessel after sailing from Cochin called at NMPT in the morning and sailed to Goa in the afternoon. On Sunday, March 20, cruise vessel M.V. Seabourn Sojourn with 371 passengers and 352 crew called at the Port out of which 250 passengers opted for ground tour and visited various places in and around Mangalore and sailed to Goa in the evening. Majority of the cruise passengers were from USA and UK.
There is a significant growth in Cruise traffic during the current year with 14 vessels as against 4 vessels handled during the previous period.
NMPT has also made another record performance by handling 12,505 metric tonnes of Urea in a day on 19-3-2011 in vessel M.V.LOWLAND SKY surpassing the earlier record of 10,544 metric tonnes handled on 31-5-2009 in vessel M.V. D.D.VIGILANT.
P Tamilvanan, Chairman, NMPT while expressing happiness over achieving a record in handling fertilizers, attributed the reasons as increased number of warehouses, increased number of railway lines for faster turn round time of rakes, trained and skilled port and dock workers and proper planning and co-ordination with port related agencies. He has also stated that the developmental works undertaken recently by the Port will enhance the capacity to attract more cargo through New Mangalore Port.
The kidnapped schoolboy was rescued by the police and reunited with his parents. Son of a gift shop owner from Basavanagudi area in Bengaluru, Chirag has reportedly told police that decided to make some quick money to spend on cricket betting and gambling after learning kidnap tricks from the ‘Crime Patrol’. According to police, Chirag reached a private school around 3pm on Tuesday on a Bounce rental bike and zeroed in on a fourth standard student who was walking out of school. He told the boy he was his father's friend and that he required help to search for a relative who had gone missing. The boy believed Chirag and rode pillion on the bike. Chirag then engaged the boy in conversation and learnt about his father's business and got his mobile phone number. He then made a call to the boy's father, demanded Rs 5 lakh and warned him against approaching cops. However, the boy's father alerted Cottonpet police and special teams were formed to crack the case. While Cottonpet inspector Venkatesh TC's squad verified CCTV footage in and around the school, Chamarajpet inspector BG Kumaraswamy's team started tracking the suspect's mobile phone movements. An hour later, the suspect's location was traced to a hotel on the Lavelle Road-St Mark's Road stretch. Police rushed there, rescued the boy and arrested Chirag.
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