Three firms compete for ₹11,733-crore VOC Port outer harbour works

Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone (APSEZ), Megha Engineering and Infrastructures (MEIL), and Vishwa Samudra Engineering are competing for the ₹11,733.28-crore marine infrastructure package at V.O. Chidambaranar (VOC) Port in Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu. The proposed contract covers works supporting a larger outer harbour container development, following two unsuccessful procurement rounds under an earlier project structure.

The latest competition concerns infrastructure to be developed under the Hybrid Annuity Model (HAM). Container terminal equipment and operations form a separate component of the wider project. No contract award has been announced in the reports.

The restructured development combines marine infrastructure with two container terminals. Its total appraised cost is approximately ₹17,167 crore, comprising ₹11,733.28 crore for the HAM component and ₹5,434.09 crore for terminal development under the Design, Build, Finance, Operate and Transfer (DBFOT) model.

The marine works include breakwaters, rock bunds, wharfs, capital dredging and reclamation. The project also provides for two 1,000-metre berths and a gate-access corridor incorporating a six-lane road.

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