Vizhinjam International Seaport:
With the completion of the first phase of the country’s first exclusive trans-shipment port, the Vizhinjam Port is all set to receive its first mothership.
- Vizhinjam International Seaport is India’s first deepwater container transshipment port.
- It is located at Vizhinjam, a coastal town in Thiruvananthapuram District, Kerala.
- It is located around 10 nautical miles from the international shipping route connecting Europe and the Persian Gulf with East Asia, through which around 30 percent of global maritime cargo passes.
- It is developed in a landlord model with a public-private partnership component on a design, build, finance, operate, and transfer (“DBFOT”) basis.
- It is being built by Adani Vizhinjam Ports Private Ltd., a subsidiary of Adani Ports and SEZ Ltd. (APSEZ), India’s largest private-sector port operator.
- Construction of the port began in December 2015.
- It is being designed to primarily cater to the transshipment and gateway container business, with provision for a cruise terminal, liquid bulk berth, and facilities for additional terminals.
- It has a natural draft of 18-20 meters, which means that some of the largest container vessels in the world will be able to dock here.
- There would be about 30 berths, most of which would be capable of handling mother vessels.
