Escalating protests threaten Indian hub port development at Vizhinjam

The Adani Group finds itself in a fix due to an escalation of protests against its under-construction container transshipment hub project at Vizhinjam, a green-field site about 10 miles southwest of Trivandrum in southern India.

The long-running unrest tied to resentments among “project-affected people,” mostly from the local fishing community, took a violent turn earlier this week, casting a shadow over Adani’s efforts to resume work at the site, which has been at a standstill for weeks.

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