V.O.C. Port sets national record by handling 147 windmill blades from single vessel

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Windmill blades astatine  V.O.C. Port

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V.O. Chidambaranar Port Authority has achieved a caller milestone successful the renewable vigor cargo handling assemblage by handling 147 windmill blades and accessories from a azygous vessel, marking the highest measurement handled from a azygous vas astatine immoderate larboard successful the country.

Notably, this surpasses the erstwhile grounds of 103 windmill blades handled by V.O.C. Port successful November 2025.

The vas MV. Bo Run Jiu Zhou, loaded with 147 windmill blades, each measuring 76 m successful length, arrived from the Port of Qinzhou, China, connected March 3, and the discharge was completed connected March 8.

According to a property connection issued by V.O.C. Port Authority, the larboard has handled 4,211 windmill blades until February 2026. This marks a maturation of 75.82%, compared to 2,395 blades handled up to February 2025.

In bid to further affirm its presumption arsenic a starring windmill leaf handling larboard successful the country, V.O.C. Port is enhancing its infrastructure by creating an further 60,000 m² of retention abstraction wrong the customs enslaved country and 180,000 m² extracurricular the customs enslaved area.

Susanta Kumar Purohit, IRSEE, Chairperson of V.O.C. Port Authority, said, “The port’s robust infrastructure, operational efficiency, and method capableness for renewable vigor cargo bespeak its steadfast committedness to supporting India’s modulation to renewable vigor and gathering a sustainable and environmentally liable maritime assemblage nether the Maritime Amrit Kaal Vision 2047, envisioned by the Prime Minister of India.”

He besides congratulated the importer, vas agent, the stevedore, shipping agencies, customized location cause and enactment handler connected this achievement.

Published - March 10, 2026 03:51 p.m. IST

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