The Vizhinjam port, part of a multi-crore international deep water multipurpose seaport project, will be operational by December 2023.
However, the entire project worth Rs 7,525 crore, including providing national highway connectivity to the port and carrying out land acquisitions, would be completed by December 2024.
The project was scheduled to be finished by 2021. The work got delayed due to various natural calamities since 2018 and thereafter, the COVID-19 outbreak.
The construction work of the berth of the port was inaugurated in June 2017 by then Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. The work on the project was formally launched in 2015.
As per the agreement, Adani under public private partnership (PPP) route on design, build, finance, operate and transfer basis (DBFOT) will fund and among other things construct berths and related infrastructure and operate the port for a period of 40 years.