LPG tanker Apollo Ocean with 17,600 tonnes of LPG cargo for Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL) and Hindustan Petroleum corporation Ltd (HPCL) is expected to call at NMPA on March 26. (Representational image)
New Mangalore Port is expected to receive around 2.62 lakh tonnes of crude oil in the next few days from West Africa and Saudi Arabia. Around 1.53 lakh tonnes of crude oil cargo are already being discharged at the port.
According to the latest vessel position of New Mangalore Port Authority (NMPA), the oil tanker Popi P with 1.41 lakh tonnes of crude oil is expected to reach New Mangalore Port on March 27. The crude oil tanker, which is sailing under the flag of Marshall Islands, left the port of Al Muajjiz located at Red Sea in Saudi Arabia on March 17.
The cargo will be unloaded at Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd’s (MRPL) single point mooring (SPM) facility under NMPA.
Another oil tanker Sunriseway with 1.21 lakh tonnes of Mandji crude oil is expected to arrive at New Mangalore Port on March 29.
The crude oil tanker Sunriseway, which is sailing under the flag of Liberia, left the port of Cap Lopez in West Africa’s Gabon on March 6. The cargo will be discharged at MRPL’s SPM facility.
Meanwhile, LPG tanker Apollo Ocean with 17,600 tonnes of LPG cargo for Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL) and Hindustan Petroleum corporation Ltd (HPCL) is expected to call at NMPA on March 26.
Sources said that the LPG tanker Shivalik, which was expected to discharge LPG to Mangaluru on March 18, had transferred the cargo to Apollo Ocean at Vadinar Port in Gujarat.
The crude oil tanker Desh Rakshak with 53,486 tonnes of crude oil is expected to complete the unloading on March 25.
The crude oil tanker Oasis with around 99,900 tonnes of Russian crude is also unloading the cargo at the SPM facility under NMPA.
Published on March 25, 2026
