Karnataka Maritime Board
Karnataka Maritime Board (KMB) is a statutory body set up by the Government of Karnataka in 2017 to provide for the rapid development and management of Ports, Inland Waterways, Islands and the coastal region in the state of Karnataka. KMB has its offices at Karwar and at Bangalore. KMB provides and manages 13 non-major ports in the coastal districts of Karnataka. KMB is in the process of developing mega ports through PPP-route. KMB is also entrusted with the development of Inland Waterways, coastal tourism and related aspects.
Shri. Siddaramaiah
Hon.Chief Minister of Karnataka
Chairman of Karnataka Maritime Board
Shri. Mankal S. Vaidya
Hon.Minister, Fisheries, Ports & Inland Water Transport
Vice Chairman of Karnataka Maritime Board
Shri. Jayaram Raipura
Chief Executive Officer
Karnataka Maritime Board
Karnataka Maritime Board
Overview
Overview
Proposed Dedicated Berth
to Lakshadweep
to Lakshadweep
Gurupura River Islands
Karnataka Ports
Non-Major Ports under the purview of Government of Karnataka
The state of Karnataka has a coastline of ~150 nautical miles (~320 km). It has a total of 13 non-major ports including Karwar Port in the north and Old Mangalore Port in the South. It has 3 coastal districts namely, Uttara Kannada, Udupi and Dakshina Kannada. Among the 13 non-major ports of the state (i.e., Karwar, Keni, Belekeri, Tadadi, Pavinakurve, Manki, Honnavar, Bhatkal, Kundapura, Hangarakatta, Malpe, Padubidri, Old Mangalore), only Karwar and Old Mangalore are all-weather green-field ports, whilst the rest operate as anchorage and lighterage ports.
Ports are important hubs for the trade of goods between countries and serve as key infrastructure in facilitating logistics chain of activities i.e., transporting goods in the most economical way.
It is observed that there is a huge gap between the demand for port services and the existing cargo handling capacity of ports available in India. However, marine transport has the highest modal share of export-import cargo in India. Sea routes provide an efficient and cost-effective mode of transporting large quantities of goods. As per Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterway’s (MoPSW) estimates, traffic at seaports is likely to grow exponentially in the upcoming year.
With the growing cargo traffic across the Indian coastline, it is essential to develop commodity-focussed state-of-the-art Port infrastructure. The major ports in India have a total of 249 berths, 9 single buoy moorings and two barge jetties to handle the cargo traffic.
However, it must be noted that Indian ports largely continue to remain dominated by multipurpose berths (approximately 60%), which evidently is falling short of specialized commodity-focused requirements.
Karnataka Ports
Ferries and Inland Water Transport
In the state of Karnataka, the Inland Water Transport wing was created under the Department of Ports in the year 1972 on the recommendations of the Gokhale Committee and Bhagavathi Committee to look after the administration, maintenance, control and regulation of the Ferries and Waterways.
At present, the State has 123 Ferries, out of which 11 Ferries are being operated by the Department, while operations of 14 Ferries were handed over through public auction under the control and supervision of the department. Further, ~30 ferries are being operated by the Taluk Panchayat / Gram Panchayat / Dam. The Remaining 98 Ferries are being operated by Taluks, Villages and Zilla Panchayats and Taluk Development Boards.
Karnataka's Navigable River System
East flowing rivers | West flowing rivers |
The Krishna System: Krishna, Tungabadra, Vedavathi, Hagiri, Malaprabha, Ghataprabha, Doni, Bhima | Kalinadi, Hattikeri, Gangavali, Aghanashini, Sharavathi, Bhatkal, Pancha, Gangolli, Sita, Swarna, Varahi, Udhyawar, Gurupur and Netravathi |
The Kavery System: | |
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