Mr. S. Gopalakrishna, Traffic Manager of New Mangalore Port Trust (NMPT), said here that the first container rake from Mangalore to Bangalore began operation on April 10.
This will boost the container traffic at the port. In another development, NMPT manually handled four rakes with an average turnaround time of three hours on April 10. He said that this handling was on par with mechanised handling of rail-based cargo.