With the arrival of the San Fernando container ship of the Maersk, which has a capacity of 8,700 TEUs, was now India's new transhipment port of Vizhinjam inaugurated (Thiruvananthapuram), the construction of which took a long time rather troubled having been started almost twenty years ago. The New Vizhinjam International Seaport is operated by the company Adani Ports and Logistics, which in 2015 had signed the concession contract with the Government of Kerala through the special purpose vehicle Adani Vizhinjam Port Private Limited (AVPPL).

Specifying that currently 25% of containerized traffic is transhipped in the course of sea transport to the destination and that until now the nation did not have a port of transhipment, so much so that 7% of the goods transshipped were handled from foreign ports, and highlighting that the arrival of the San Fernando inaugurates the first terminal of India's transhipment and its largest port in the waters the managing director of Adani Ports and SEZ Limited (APSEZ), Karan Adani, pointed out that no other Indian port has the technologies of the port of Vizhinjam: "This which has already been installed here - he specified - is The most advanced container handling technology of South Asia. And once the automation phase is completed and the Vessel Traffic Management System, Vizhinjam will be one of the more technologically sophisticated transhipment ports at the world".

With the first phase of the project for the construction of the port, An 800-linear metre quay has been put into operation capable of to serve two mother ships at the same time and to handle a annual container traffic of one million TEUs. With the completion of the other two phases of the project, expected by 2028, traffic capacity will rise to 6.2 million TEU.