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Vizhinjam International Seaport
May 6 , 2025
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- Prime Minister has commissioned India’s first deep-sea transshipment port at Vizhinjam in Kerala.
- It is the India’s first deepwater container transshipment port.
- It is also India’s first Greenfield and semi-automated port.
- Here cargo containers are transferred from one vessel to another before reaching their final destination.
- India did not have a deepwater container transshipment port until now.
- India reportedly spends an estimated $200–220 million (Rs 1,682-1,850 crore) annually on transhipment.
- This port has employed nine women, particularly from the local fishing community, to operate large automated CRMG (Cantilever Rail Mounted Gantry) cranes.
- This is the first time in any Indian port that the women are operating such machinery.
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