Vizhinjam port sees record cargo growth amid global shipping disruptions

Although the Hormuz situation has travel arsenic a blessing successful disguise for the recently commissioned the Vizhinjam seaport successful Kerala, witnessed by an summation successful vas calls and grounds cargo handling volumes successful its opening fiscal year, the larboard could not afloat pat into the request and increasing imaginable of the planetary maritime industry. Delays successful augmenting the port’s infrastructure forced the authorities to crook distant requests from shipping lines during the highest of the Hormuz crisis, which was fuelled by the West Asian war.

As the fiscal twelvemonth drew to a close, the Vizhinjam International Transhipment Deepwater Multipurpose Seaport, billed arsenic India’s archetypal semi-automated and astir technologically blase larboard developed by Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd (APSEZ) successful concern with the Kerala government, acceptable a caller benchmark successful its inaugural fiscal twelvemonth by handling 12.96 lakh twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) of cargo, surpassing the projected yearly capableness of 1 cardinal TEUs.