VOC Port, ACME progress renewable ammonia project in Tamil Nadu

Land allocated for 438,000 tons per year facility at VOC Port

Click to learn more. The 1,200 tons per day first phase of ACME’s Tamil Nadu renewable ammonia project will be built just south of VOC Port in Tuticorin, India. Source: ACME.

As part of the recent India Maritime Week event, ACME and VOC Port Authority on India’s southern coast have progressed the Tamil Nadu Green Ammonia Project. The 1,200 tons per day, $1.4 billion project will be built on a site immediately south of the VOC Port area in Tuticorin. Two additional phases of the same production capacity and capital investment will follow. The project has been in the works since support from the Tamil Nadu state government was granted in 2022.

Two more ammonia MoUs signed: production & storage

Also at India Maritime Week, VOC Port signed two additional ammonia MoUs. A 300 tons per day (109,500 tons per year) renewable production project will be developed with CGS Energy, for an investment of $570 million. And a $2.9 billion, common-use storage project for ammonia and other liquid commodities will be developed with Sembcorp group company Green Infra Renewable Energy Farms.

To date, we have signed around 28 MoUs with key stakeholders, collectively valued at Rs. 1.27 lakh crore (over $15 billion). These agreements emphasise port-driven industrialisation, green hydrogen and alternative fuels, alongside the integration of artificial intelligence into our port activities. We anticipate substantial inflows of investment and the generation of many new jobs as a result. We are working extremely hard to build VOC Port into a port of the future, with green energy initiatives and the development of an outer harbour.

Susanta Kumar Purohit, Chairman, VOC Port Authority, quoted in  “V.O. Chidambaranar Port signs MoU worth over Rs. 42,000 Cr”, Indian Chemical News, 1 Nov 2025