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Even arsenic the Vizhinjam International Seaport present continues to rise its benchmark show successful presumption of instrumentality throughput, the State is miserably lagging successful mounting up a Vizhinjam-driven concern ecosystem, which is indispensable for tapping the imaginable of 1 of the largest planetary transshipment hubs.
According to the latest statistics, the seaport has erstwhile again emerged arsenic the top-performing larboard connected the eastbound and southbound coasts of India, registering a instrumentality throughput of 1.21 lakh twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) successful December 2025.
This marks the highest-ever monthly instrumentality handling measurement achieved by Vizhinjam since the commencement of its commercialized operations successful December 2024. The larboard besides handled astir 686 instrumentality vessels, including 51 ultra-large instrumentality carriers successful the world, handling a full cargo of 14.6 lakh TEUs.
The emergence of Vizhinjam arsenic a large transshipment hub has started to pull large players to Kerala, though nary large breakthrough has been achieved to day successful presumption of mounting up an concern ecosystem based successful the State.
In a societal media post, Sanjay Swarup, CMD, Container Corporation of India Ltd. (CONCOR), announced that CONCOR held a strategical gathering with the Adani Vizhinjam International Seaport authorities. The discussions focused connected concern improvement opportunities, synergising port-led infrastructure with CONCOR’s robust multimodal logistics network, and unlocking caller value-driven proviso concatenation solutions for EXIM and home cargo. The State, however, is lagging down successful presumption of acquiring onshore from backstage owners and handing them implicit to the cardinal players funny successful investing successful the State.
According to sources, the State authorities has received imaginable involvement for 500 acres from imaginable investors, but nary large breakthrough has been achieved truthful acold successful presumption of providing land. A twelvemonth aft the commercialized cognition of the port, the State couldn’t find onshore to acceptable up an bare instrumentality gait adjacent the vicinity of the port, 1 of the main prerequisites of a transshipment hub.
A trailer motortruck terminal has yet to travel up successful the region, adjacent arsenic neighbouring States similar Tamil Nadu and Karnataka proceed to grip astir 2 cardinal TEUs of gateway cargo each annually. On the different hand, Kerala has been handling lone adjacent to 1.5 lakh TEUs owed to the lack of industries and a port-driven concern ecosystem, sources said.
While the Vizhinjam seaport tin link to astir 107 starring transshipment hubs crossed the globe, a large vantage that nary different larboard tin claim, the lack of an concern secosystem is depriving the State of its potential, according to authorities officials.
