PORT DEVELOPMENT AND INLAND WATERWAYS IN KERALA

• Kerala hosts India's first dedicated deep-water container transhipment port (Vizhinjam) and one of India's earliest declared National Waterways (NW-3, West Coast Canal), making it a focal case for GS-III infrastructure and logistics.
• The state is central to India's Sagarmala / Maritime India Vision 2030 / Maritime Amrit Kaal Vision 2047 push to capture container transhipment traffic currently routed through Colombo, Singapore and Salalah.