In its first year of operation, the Adani Group-owned Vizhinjam International Deepwater Multipurpose Seaport, the nation’s first dedicated container trans-shipment port, has handled over a lakh containers every month and reached full capacity utilization of 1.2 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs). According to a corporate spokeswoman, there is now a pressing need to extend the infrastructure, with an estimated ₹10,000 crore expenditure anticipated.

Reaching 8.5 lakh TEUs in ten months was not anything we anticipated. We believed it to be half of it. However, given the first phase’s success, there’s no reason to wait until 2045 for the second. In order to have the enlarged terminal operational by 2028, we are moving forward with the next stage of expansion,” the official continued.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi opened the facility in May 2024. Only in December did commercial operations begin, with the first ship berthed at the 800-meter container terminal for trials in July. According to him, the terminal has handled more than 380 container ships in the past year, including the largest container ship in the world, the MSC Irina, which arrived in June of this year.