Infrastructure update from Kerala.
After this port is completed fully in December 2024, it will become the largest and the deepest port of India with a capacity to dock 30 ships simultaneously
This port will have a Depth (Draft) of 24 metres, whereas most Indian ports like that of Mundra in Gujarat has drafts ranging from 9 metres to 17 metres at the max.
Because of the limited drafts available at Indian ports, the largest Container ships of the world carrying more than 20,000 or so containers bound for India has to unload the cargo at Dubai or Colombo port in Sri Lanka, after which smaller Container ships transport that cargo to Indian ports in the Arabian Sea or Bay of Bengal and vice versa, leading to an increase in cost of shipment and increased Travel times for India cargo.
After this port is completed in May 2023, those larger ships will directly come to India and unload their cargo directly at Vizhinjam port after which smaller ships or Railway wagons and trucks will directly transport those Containerized cargo to various parts of India.
Built at a cost of Rs 7525 crores, around Rs2545 crores will be invested by the Adani group, whereas the Government of India will invest Rs 3436 crores and the Kerala state government will invest Rs1635 crores. The then Shipping minister of India Shri Nitin Gadkariji laid the foundation stone of the project in late 2015.
It will have 30 berths for 30 ships to load and unload simultaneously, becoming the Largest port of India. Work on this port started in 2016 and was scheduled to be completed by 2019, but due to lack of stones and boulders to construct the berths and the 6 km long Breakwater (a structure that protect the port from Sea waves), the project got delayed.
More than 80 lakh Tonnes of stones and boulders were required for the project, out of which 30 lakh Tonnes of Boulders were sourced till today while the remaining will be supplied in the next 2 years.
Around 600 acres of land is being reclaimed from the sea over which, the Container Terminals will be located.
This seaport is located very near to Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of Kerala. It will transform the economy of the state
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