India-funded deepwater Sittwe Port in Myanmar’s Rakhine state will finally become operational when Union shipping minister Sarbananda Sonowal will receive the first Indian cargo ship docking at the ...

Union Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways, and Ayush Sarbananda Sonowal will be receiving the first Indian cargo ship at Sittwe Port in Myanmar on May 9. The ceremony is likely to inaugurate ...

It was a dream of former Prime Minister (PM) Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who first envisaged opening of an alternate sea route for the north-eastern part of India through Myanmar in 2003. Bangladesh that ...

Myanamar's Sittwe Port, which is funded by India as part of the Kaladan Multimodal Transit Transport project, will be inaugurated today. As part of a trial run, an Indian cargo ship will also leave ...

The Sittwe Port in Myanmar. The seaport with capacity of 20,000 DWT will drastically reduce transportation cost of cargo from other parts of India to north-east region and open unprecedented avenues ...

Both Myanmar and India are in the process of finalising agreements to commence direct trade. (PTI Photo) Myanmar has high hopes for the India-built Sittwe Port, anticipating it to be a significant ...

Sittwe port opens India’s ports and shipping minister Sarbananda Sonowal and Myanmar's deputy PM Admiral Tin Aung San on Tuesday jointly inaugurated the Sittwe Port in the civil war-hit country and ...

The fall of Paletwa and several key cities in western Myanmar to anti-junta resistance forces has increased pressure on Sittwe, a port city developed with New Delhi’s assistance that is home to an ...