VO Chidambaranar Port at Tuticorin plans to set up 5 MW grid connected solar power plant at the port premises. The port authorities have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Solar Energy Corporation of India in this regard.

India has got a rich and lengthy coastline of 7,517 km. The ports and logistics infrastructure needs to be overhauled in a big way. Against a share of 9 percent of railways and 6 percent of roads in the GDP the share of ports is only 1 percent.