The work on the 3,100-metre-long breakwater of the Vizhinjam International Seaport in Thiruvananthapuram has been completed.
The first trial run of port operations, including loading and unloading of containers from the port by bringing containers to the port on large barges, will begin by the second week of June. This would be followed by the commercial launch of the port by Onam as a gift to the State, said Ports Minister V.N. Vasavan.
The Minister said this after visiting the breakwater site, cranes delivered to the port by a Chinese-based company, and other ancillary works being held at the port here on Thursday. He also visited the control unit of the cranes, from where the operations of large ship-to-shore cranes and yard cranes to be manned using an automatic system.
