Aimed at extending Water Metro services to more locations in the Greater Kochi area, Kochi Water Metro Limited (KWML) has completed installation of floating pontoons at four more terminals.
Thus, terminals at South Chittoor, Eloor, Cheranalloor, and North Mulavukad are awaiting operation of ferries from the High Court terminal since the pontoons that help safe boarding and deboarding from ferries irrespective of tidal variations have been installed. These terminals have also obtained power supply and are ready to host the electric-hybrid Water Metro ferries, sources said.
KWML has been operating 12 ferries that it procured in 2023 from Cochin Shipyard in the High Court-Vypeen, High Court-Bolgatty and Vyttila-Kakkanad corridors. Their average daily patronage has been hovering at 5,500. The delivery of another 11 ferries is expected to be completed in phases, by June. From among this, a ferry whose construction is over is undergoing trial, following which it would be handed over to KWML, they added.
