Masterstroke by Gautam Adani, set to invest additional Rs 300000000000 to expand…, majority of investment will go into…
GH News September 18, 2025 04:06 PM

New Delhi: With an aim to expand its domestic operations the Gautam Adani-led Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone (APSEZ) is planning to invest Rs 30000 crore in the next two years as per The Economic Times report. The report further adds that the majority of the investment will go into the Mundra (Gujarat) Dhamra (Odisha) and Vizhinjam (Kerala) ports and this is over twice the ₹11000–12000 crore investment the company had projected for the current fiscal year.
The company has set an annual cargo handling target of one billion tonnes by 2030 with about 850 million metric tonnes (MMT) projected from Indian ports and the remaining 140–150 MMT from its overseas assets.
Here are some of the key details:
The FY26 investment plan is allocated across ports (₹6500–7000 crore) logistics (₹2300 crore) renewables (₹1500 crore) and marine services (₹700–800 crore).
The additional ₹30000 crore capital expenditure will reportedly focus on expanding berths and terminals at Mundra and Dhamra
The investment will also be made on scaling up the Vizhinjam transshipment hub
It is important to note that the Vizhinjam transshipment hub handles over one million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) within a span of nine months of its launch.
At the end of FY25 the company had 633 MMT of installed capacity across 15 Indian ports and terminals and handled 450 MMT giving the company a 27 per cent national share.
As per Bloomberg report a sanctioned oil tanker Spartan carrying Russian crude oil neared Adani Groups Mundra port making it one of the last blacklisted vessels to unload at the conglomerate’s facilities
The Spartan a Suezmax tanker carrying over one million barrels of Urals crude was near a discharge point serving HPCL-Mittal Energy Ltd (HMEL). The vessel was sanctioned last year by the United Kingdom and the European Union for facilitating Russian oil supplies.