Infrastructure and connectivity are among the major challenges facing India and Asean-member countries that are looking to further boost trade ties, Minister of State for Commerce and Industry C.R. Chaudhary said on Tuesday.
Trilateral highway
In the works are construction of a trilateral highway — India-Myanmar-Thailand — and extending that project to Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, the Kaladan Multi Modal Transit Transport Project to improve links between India’s eastern ports and Myanmar’s Sittwe port, as well as the Asean-India maritime transport cooperation pact to eliminate barriers that trouble maritime trade, he said. He was speaking at the Asean-India Business and Investment Meet and Expo. Besides, there is also the proposed rail link Vietnam and India.
