- A deep water port built in Myanmar’s Sittwe by India is ready to be commissioned.
- The Sittwe port is starting point for the Kaladan Multi Modal Transit Transport Project in Myanmar.
- Once shipments arrive at Sittwe port from Kolkata, they will be transferred to smaller freight carriers which would sail upstream into Mizoram.
- Significance of this route:
- Provides alternative route to India to ship goods to the landlocked north-eastern States.
- Significantly lower the cost and distance of movement from Kolkata to Mizoram and beyond.
- Reduces dependency on only route narrow strip dubbed as the Chicken’s Neck in West Bengal, sandwiched between Bhutan and Bangladesh.
