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It is nearly 20 years since I first came across plans for a new container transhipment hub at a place called Vizhinjam – it seemed nothing more than a pipedream, a view that remained unchanged for almost two decades.

But as the first ship-to-shore gantry cranes arrive at the newly built port, I am on the point of being proved utterly wrong.

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