Prime Minister Narendra Modi is informed about the new Maritime Maritime opening of Vizhinjam Deepwater Deepwater Multi-Purph in Thiruvananthapuram on Friday, May 2, 2025. Photo credit: ANI
Helping the country to explore new horizons in global maritime trade, the newly built Vizhinjam International Seort was dedicated to the nation by Prime Minister Narendra Modi here on Friday (May 3, 2025).
Positioned only to 10 nautical miles of the international shipping routes that connect Europe, the Gulf and the Far East region, the East-West sending axis, the port is expected to significantly reduce the dependence of the India of other international ports for the cargo transford.
The festive spirit seized the port city when Mr. Modi arrived at the port around 10.30 in the morning and was received by Prime Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and his Cabinet colleagues.
Then, the prime minister approached the MSC Celestinomaresca ship that caught the port. Later, he visited the key facilities, including the port operations building, before the formal launch of the port.
The first semi -automated in the country, the port aims to bring home the presentation of Indian cargo transfers presents tasks in the foreign ports of Singapore, Colombo, Salalah and Dubai due to the absence of deep watery sea ports in near India. With the commissioned port, the Vizhinjam becomes a world -class transhipment center so that the Indian subcontinent attends to the entire Indian.
With the site where the port is located with a natural water depth up to 20 meters within a kilometer of the coast, suitable for accommodating very large mother ships, the port is expected to change game for Kerala, as well as in the maritime trade in southern Asia.
Vizhinjam Automation Seort positions it as one of the most technological sophisticated transhipment ports worldwide, reducing vessel response times and improving India’s ability to handle large container ships. The operations of the 24 -yard cranes mounted in the port are completely automated, while the eight ground boat cranes work remotely, which makes the first semi -automatic port in the country.
Even before the commissioning of the project, the port achieved many achievements duration of its proof and subsignal execution five months of commercial operation.
RANKED First Among 15 PORTS IN SOUTIASTERN REGIONS OF INDIA IN TER TERMS OF CHARGE HANDLED IN FEBRARY AND MARCH 2025 (78.833 TEUS FROM 40 VESSELS IN FEBRARY AND 1.08 LAKHS TEUS FROM 51 VESSELS IN March), THE PORT HASHT TO THAT, FACILITATED TO FACILITATED, Facilated, facilitated, facilitated, facilitated, facilitated, facilitated, facilitated, Lakhs teus or loading in such a short time, about 110% use of their capacity of installed capacity in this period.
The giant mother ships such as MSC Turkiye, one of the largest container ships in the world (24,346 TEU) and MSC Claude Girardet with 24,116 teu called in the port, showing the engineering skill of the port to the world.
The breakwater of the rubble is a wonder of engineering. The 2,960 m long built built in water at a depth or 18 m 20 m with a total height of 28 m, is equivalent to a 9 -story building, which makes it the deepest breakwater ever built in the country.
Now, with the Ministry of Environment and Forests that grants environmental authorization for the second and third phases of port development, which will attract an investment of ₹ 9,560 million rupees by the ports of Adani and the special economic zone to this backpack developed by the Datahip Kerala government, will improve its current capacity of 1 million TEU / annual to 3 million teus / ANNUM by 2028.
The cost of the first phase of the project is ₹ 8,867 million rupees. Or this, the contribution of the state government is linked to some ₹ 5,595 million rupees.
The commissioning of the port also attended Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar, the ministers of the Union of the State George Kurien and Sureesh Gopi, the state ministers and others.
Published – May 3, 2025 08:30 am istt