The record 148,076 TEU handled by Trivandrum port in October is more than an operational milestone; it demonstrates the facility’s growing national weight. Across India’s 31 container terminals, TRV accounted for 5.51% of total container throughput during the month. Decades-old major ports handled the remaining 94.49%. Though Thiruvananthapuram commands barely 0.70% of India’s coastline, its single deep-water terminal already handles over 5% of national container volume.
In October, India’s busiest individual container terminal handled 318,026 TEU—just over twice TRV’s volume. By 2028, TRV aims to handle 5.7m TEU annually, or roughly 475,000 TEU a month. If existing leaders do not expand rapidly, TRV will become the country’s largest container terminal. With the port currently tracking towards 1.5m TEU against an initial design capacity of 1m TEU, throughput could reach 6m to 7m TEU by 2028, or 500,000 to 550,000 TEU monthly.
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