Posted on 23 Aug 2014
The Supreme Court on Friday decided to examine an appeal filed by the Kerala government against a decision of the Principal Bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) to judicially review the multi-crore Vizhinjam port project, a multipurpose...
Posted on 18 Jul 2014
Principal Bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Thursday decided to review the constitutionality of a 2011 Coastal Regulation Zone notification which exempted coastal areas of “outstanding natural beauty” such as the Vizhinjam-Kovalam...
Posted on 13 Jan 2014
The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests is reported to have given the mandatory environment and coastal zone clearance for the Vizhinjam International Sea Port project in Kerala last month. The project, envisaging an outlay of Rs. 4,010...
Posted on 15 Mar 2014
The environmental clearance given to the Rs.5,000-crore Vizhinjam sea port has come under the scanner of the National Green Tribunal (NGT), Southern Bench.
Admitting an appeal that challenged the clearances given to the project, the tribunal...
Posted on 10 Mar 2014
Five major port operating companies/consortia have responded to the global tender floated by Vizhinjam International Seaport Limited (VISL) calling for Requests for Qualification (RFQ) to build the port superstructure and operate the proposed...
Posted on 07 Jan 2014
The government has extended the last date for submitting global tenders for the construction of infrastructure for the Vizhinjam international seaport.
Ports Minister K.Babu informed the Assembly on Monday that the last date had been extended to...
Posted on 23 Feb 2014
A waiting game on part of the officials of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) is holding up a key project for the Navy and an economic win-win situation for Kerala.
The Navy is keen to carve out a base with 500 m of berthing space within the...
Posted on 09 Jan 2014
The government is optimistic about getting the Vizhinjam port work started by the end of this year, Minister for Ports K. Babu told the Assembly on Wednesday.
He was responding to a calling attention motion moved by Kodiyeri Balakrishnan.
The...
Posted on 04 Jan 2014
The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests has accorded environmental and Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) clearance to a Rs.5,000-crore deepwater container transshipment port to be set up at Vizhinjam, near here.
The Ministry granted the...
Posted on 06 Dec 2013
Vizhinjam International Seaport Limited (VISL), the State government agency that is implementing the proposed deepwater container transhipment port at Vizhinjam, hopes to complete the bidding process connected with the project by April, 2014, VISL...
Posted on 04 Dec 2013
The Expert Appraisal Committee of the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests for projects relating to infrastructure development and Coastal Regulation Zone has recommended the accordance of environmental clearance for the Rs.5,000-crore...
Posted on 01 Aug 2013
Excavations by a team of archaeologists over three years have unearthed artefacts indicating that Vizhinjam, site for the proposed international container transhipment terminal, could have been one of the earliest port towns along the south Kerala...
Posted on 26 Apr 2013
Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has said that a time frame is being set for each procedure for the Vizhinjam International Seaport project. There is no question of more modifications to the port model.
After inaugurating the long-awaited water...
Posted on 29 Jun 2013
As the draft report on the Environmental Impact Assessment of the Vizhinjam port project faces a public hearing on Saturday, environmentalists are not happy with the manner in which the report has projected the impact of the port on Vizhinjam.
In...
Posted on 31 May 2013
The first stage of the Vizhinjam International Seaport will have berthing facilities not only for big container ships, but for the Indian Navy and the Coastguard, besides a cruise terminal, Ports Minister K. Babu has said.
Addressing a press...
