New Delhi, Jan. 23 -- The shortage of limestone, the most important raw material for the construction of Kerala's dream port project -- Vizhinjam -- has affected the work at the port site, causing a delay in the project completion, which should have seen the berthing of a ship in 2018.
On Thursday, the public undertaking committee of the Kerala Legislative Assembly visited the port site to take stock of the situation.
At the time of commencement of work on the port on December 5, 2015, Adani Ports owner Gautam Adani had announced that the first ship will berth there on September 1, 2018, in a record time of less than 1,000 days.
This, however, did not happen, and the second important deadline was December 4, 2019, which was the original ...