India’s first deepwater transshipment port, the Vizhinjam international seaport near Thiruvananthapuram, on Thursday received its first mothership.

• The MV San Fernando, carrying 2,000 containers, was given a grand welcome at the port.
• The berthing of the ship was part of a trial run at the port before it is slated to open for commercial operations. 
• Before the 300-metre-long Marshall Island-flagged container ship berthed at the port Thursday morning, tug boats gave it a water salute.
• The ship, operated by Bernhard Schulte Ship Management, Singapore, was hired by Maersk (AP Moller Group). It arrived from the Xiamen port in China.