Adani planning Iron breakwater at Vizhinjam Port?
Synopsis
The Adani Ports directed its contractors to stop supplying rocks.
The Adani Ports, which is constructing the Vizhinjam Port, directed the contractors supplying boulders for the breakwater to stop offloading the rocks, triggering doubts that the company was planning to use iron sheet piling instead.
The sudden decision of Adani Ports, which halted the construction works, gave rise to the concerns about the possible environmental problems involved in the iron sheet piling.
When completed, the breakwater of the port would be at a three-kilometre stretch. Sheet piling, instead of using rocks, would be the first in the country, Asianet News reports.
Mathew Varghese, a sheet piling expert, says that the dangerous chemicals would be needed to keep the iron sheets from rusting. These chemicals would be harmful to the marine life and ecology.