Advantage Vizhinjam
Vizhinjam port is located 16 km south of Kerala’s capital, Thiruvananthapuram on the West coast of India.
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The site offers the following unique advantages:
. Proximity to international shipping route and East-West shipping axis
. Availability of 20m contour within a nautical mile off the coast
. Minimal littoral drift along the coast and therefore hardly any maintenance dredging
. Immediacy to national/regional road, rail network
. Flexibility in design and expansion being Greenfield project
. Close to Thiruvananthapuram city that has an International airport, human resource and social infrastructure

The Project
Buoyant International container trade and growth in container traffic in India at a CAGR of 14 percent during the last decade has led to a trend towards agglomeration (increased vessel sizes on order). This necessitates the establishment of an international transshipment terminal close to southern tip of Indian peninsula and the proposed terminal will be ideal for attracting mother vessels ranging from Post Panamax to Malacca-max in a phased manner.

Detailed traffic assessment study indicates that Vizhinjam could be configured to meet these transshipment requirements of the region.

A container shipment economic study has further established the above for routing of containers economically.

All report(s)/data on the project are available at the office of Vizhinjam International Sea Port Ltd.

A Futuristic Regional Hub
Water depth of 16m to be increased to 18.7m in phased manner, at berth, would allow vessel sizes upto 12000 TEUs. This together with a design capacity of 1.1 million TEUs going upto 4.1 million TEUs would serve the transshipment needs of the region. The initial project cost enveloping state-of-the-art facilities and equipment is estimated to be INR 18.5 billion (approximately US$ 425 million)

Project Team
GoK has incorporated a fully owned Company by the name of Vizhinjam International Seaport Limited with the major objective of providing external support infrastructure (such as linkages and power/water supply) for the Port.

IL&FS Infrastructure Development Corporation Ltd. is the strategic advisor for project structuring, procurement of consultants and developer(s). The knowledge partners of the project are M/s L&T-RAMBOLL Consulting Engineers Limited, in association with ROGGE Marine Consulting GMBH, Germany, RAMBOLL, Denmark and L&T Capital Company Limited, who have carried out feasibility studies.