India, July 16 -- The proposed sale of a 49 per cent stake in Adani Vizhinjam Port Private Limited to Terminal Investment Limited (TiL), the port-operating arm of Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), has triggered one of Kerala's biggest debates on infrastructure, environment and public interest.

Valued at about Rs 13,000 crore, the transaction would bring the world's largest container shipping company into the ownership of India's first deep-water transshipment port, located close to Vizhinjam near Thiruvananthapuram, at a time when another MSC vessel continues to cast a long shadow over the state's coastline.Barely a year has passed since MSC Elsa 3 sank off Kochi, releasing fuel, containers, and billions of plastic pellets into the A...