NATIONAL DIARY OF EVENTS

India’s first transshipment port

  • The Ministry of Ports, Shipping, and Waterways has recently approved Adani Group’s Vizhinjam Port in Kerala to operate as India’s 1st transshipment port.
  • The transshipment port facilitates the transfer of cargo from large vessels to smaller ones.

About Vizhinjam Port

  • First automated port in India
  • Only port in the country to be located adjacent to an international shipping route.
  • Deepest port in India.
  • It is a green Port.

 

 

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