- Sittwe Port in Myanmar will now be operated by India.
- After Chabahar Port of Iran, this is the second foreign port which will be operated by India.
- A proposal of India Ports Global (IPGL) has been approved to take over the operations of this port located on the Kaladan River.
- Sittwe port of Myanmar became the second international port after the Shahid Beheshti Port, Chabahar of Iran to come under the control of India Ports Global Limited.
- However, unlike the Chabahar port, where India controls only two terminals, India has full control over the Sittwe Port.
Sittwe Port of Myanmar
- Sittwe Port development in the Rakhine Province of Myanmar is part of the Kaladan Multimodal Transit Transport Project signed between India and Myanmar.
- The multimodal transit connectivity on the Kaladan River will connect the Sittwe port in Myanmar with the state of Mizoram in India. The port was built with a grant of $ 500 million from India to Myanmar.
- The Union Minister of Ports, Shipping & Waterways and Ayush, Shri Sarbananda Sonowal formally inaugurated the project on 9 May 2023. He received the first Indian cargo ship, which sailed from the Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port in Kolkata to the Sittwe Port.