Without much fanfare the much-awaited Sittwe Port in Myanmar was inaugurated earlier this month, creating immense hope of boosting trade and the economy in the northeastern region of India as well as.
Union Ports, Shipping and Waterways Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, along with the Deputy Prime Minister of Myanmar Admiral Tin Aung San, on May 9 jointly inaugurated the Sittwe Port in Myanmar.On M
Without much fanfare the much awaited Sittwe Port in Myanmar was inaugurated earlier this month creating immense hope of boosting trade and the economy in the northeastern region of India as well as South East Asia.Union Ports, Shipping and .
AGARTALA/GUWAHATI Without much fanfare the much awaited Sittwe Port in Myanmar was inaugurated earlier this month creating immense hope of boosting trade and the economy in the northeastern region of India as well as South East Asia. Union Ports, Shipping and Waterways Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, along with the Deputy Prime Minister of Myanmar Admiral Tin Aung San, on May 9 jointly inaugurated the Sittwe Port in Myanmar. On May 4, Minister of State for Ports, Shipping and Waterways, Shantanu Thakur flagged off a ship carrying 20,000 bags containing 1,000 metric tonnes of cement from Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port in Kolkata as the inaugural shipment to operationalise the Sittwe Port in Rakhine State of Myanmar. The port has been built under grant assistance from India as part of the Kaladan Multimodal Transit Transport Project (KMTTP). The Sittwe Port was built as an alternative route to the 20-km Siliguri corridor, also known as the Chicken’s Neck corridor. It is a stretch of la