The Chennai Port Authority is set to revive its long-pending Outer Harbor development project, driven by the accelerating pace of industrial growth in Tamil Nadu and neighboring states. A new financial feasibility study is scheduled to begin shortly, aiming to evaluate the feasibility of the ambitious project. Originally proposed in 2007, the plan was to develop a mega container terminal at North Bharathi Dock. The project featured a 2 km quay length with a capacity of 4 million Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units (MTEUs), to be executed under a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model at an estimated cost of βΉ3,000 crore. A technical feasibility study was carried out by IIT-Madras. However, due to the global economic
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