The Vizhinjam international seaport project will mark a milestone on Sunday with Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan according a reception to the first vessel that called at the port.
Though the history of Vizhinjam dates back to the ‘Ay Dynasty’, which is believed to have ruled over parts of southern India between the 8th and 9th century AD with Vizhinjam as its capital, it was C.P. Ramaswamy Iyer, the Diwan of erstwhile Travancore, who perceived the possibility of a commercial seaport at Vizhinjam.
The then administration had even constituted a team of engineers in the middle of the 1940’s to hold a survey of the site for developing Vizhinjam into a major seaport. An engineer from the England-based Harbour Engineering Company was brought in for a marine survey. However, the project was stalled and officers in the then Harbour Division were relocated to other departments.
