Mangalore Port Dredging Tender: Removing a Hard Patch in the Approach Channel (Rs 108.80 Cr)

New Mangalore Port is paying ₹108.80 crore to cut a hard patch out of its approach channel so deeper ships can enter, and the Mangalore port dredging tender closes at 3:00 PM on 10 November 2026.

One obstruction, six months, item rate

The work is removal of a hard patch in the approach channel at New Mangalore Port. The Civil Engineering Department at the port headquarters in Panambur is the inviting authority under reference CIVIL/CE(C)/EE(C)/34/2026-27, on an item rate contract with 180 days.

A hard patch is a lens of rock or stiff material sitting above the designed channel bed. Ordinary maintenance dredging cannot lift it, so the patch sets the real draft limit for the whole channel no matter how deep the rest of it is. Clearing one is usually drilling and blasting underwater, or rock cutting with a specialist dredger, and then removing the broken material.

Why the fee is ₹1,680

The estimate is ₹1,08,80,00,000 and the EMD is ₹2,56,76,800 with exemption allowed. The tender fee is ₹1,680, which is close to nominal and tells you the port wants the widest possible field for a job only a handful of firms can actually do. Bids open at 3:30 PM on 11 November 2026.

Dredging work is unusually well represented on the portals this month. The three-year maintenance dredging contract at Paradip is open, and this same port has the New Mangalore cargo berth package out on EPC.

Marine plant, not land plant

This job is won or lost on the dredger. A cutter suction dredger with rock-cutting teeth, or a backhoe dredger on a spud pontoon for a confined patch, does the cutting, and split hopper barges carry spoil to the disposal ground. Underwater drilling and blasting needs a jack-up platform and a licensed blasting crew.

Shore support is modest but real: a crane at the quay for mobilising and changing cutter heads, an excavator on the reclamation side if any material is placed ashore, and a wheel loader to move it. Six months on the west coast means the window closes with the monsoon, so mobilisation speed decides whether the programme holds.

Key facts

How to apply

1. Open the official portal: Central Public Procurement Portal.
2. Search by tender ID 2026_NMPT_914641_1 (reference no. CIVIL/CE(C)/EE(C)/34/2026-27) under New Mangalore Port Trust.
3. Register on the portal and keep a valid Class III digital signature certificate ready.
4. Download the bid document, the hydrographic survey and the rock classification data, then check the ₹2,56,76,800 EMD and the ₹1,680 fee.
5. Submit your bid online before 10 November 2026, 3:00 PM.

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