Mobile Harbour Crane Tender: 100 MT Hire at New Mangalore Port for Three Years (Rs 54 Cr)

New Mangalore Port Authority wants one 100 tonne mobile harbour crane on hire for three years at a cost of ₹54 crore, and the mobile harbour crane tender closes at 3:00 PM on 24 November 2026.

A hire contract, not a purchase

The Mechanical Engineering Department at the port is hiring 1 no. mobile harbour crane of 100 MT capacity for three years, extendable by up to two more, at NMPA Panambur. The reference is CME-13/2026-27 dated 03/11/2026 and the estimate on the portal is ₹54,00,00,000.

For an equipment owner this is the kind of contract worth studying even if you will not bid: it prices machine availability over five years at a working port. The crane handles cargo at the berth, so the contract will carry uptime obligations, operator deployment and a maintenance regime, and payment usually follows hours or tonnage rather than a lump sum.

What a bidder needs

EMD is ₹75,52,000 and the tender fee is ₹1,680. The form of contract on the portal is works and no period in days is listed, because the term is set out as three years plus the extension. Bids open at 4:00 PM on 25 November.

Realistically this suits a crane owner or an OEM-backed operator who can put a 100 MT machine at Panambur and keep it running. Karnataka also has the five year performance based maintenance contract on NH-169A open, and the Wadi Secunderabad quadrupling work is live for civil contractors in the north of the state.

Reading the machine spec before you price it

Bid documents for harbour cranes set out the outreach, the duty cycle and the wheel load the quay can take, and those three decide whether your machine qualifies at all. Check the quay loading limit at Panambur against your crane in its worst working position. Port duty is harder on a crane than construction duty because the cycles never stop, so price the overhaul into year three rather than hoping it holds. Owners who run yard fleets of wheel loaders and excavators at ports know the salt air cost too.

Key facts

How to apply

1. Open the official portal: Central Public Procurement Portal.
2. Search by tender ID 2026_NMPT_932716_1 (reference no. CME-13/2026-27) 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, read the crane specification, the availability guarantee and the payment basis, then check eligibility, the ₹75,52,000 EMD and the ₹1,680 fee.
5. Submit your bid online before 24 November 2026, 03:00 PM.

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