Electric boats procured under the Kochi Water Metro project will begin services from December 2020, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has said.

The project envisages a total of 78 ferries. Of them, order has been placed with the Cochin Shipyard to construct 23 ferries, each having 100 seats. The rest will have 50 seats.

The first lot of ferries is slated to operate on the Vyttila-Kakkanad route.

In 2019, Kochi Metro Rail Limited (KMRL), government of Kerala, and German funding agency KfW had…