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In a significant boost to strategic, diplomatic and economic engagement between India and Myanmar, the waterway section of the ambitious Rs 3,200 crore Kaladan Multimodal Transit Transport Project, KMTTP, is all set to become operational this week. After a trial run of rice shipment to Bangladesh, a shipload of cement from Kolkata to Sittwe port in Myanmar will be the first official cargo after Naypiydaw gave necessary permission for regular commercial operations from the port completed by the Shipping Ministry’s Inland Waterways Authority of India in 2018. The Kaladan project proposed about two decades ago began with the Detailed Project...
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April 30, 2023
09:06
India-Myanmar Kaladan waterway to open in May. But ‘real gains’ only when 110-km road is completed
Source: theprint.in
