Kaladan Multimodal Transit Transport Project (KMMTTP)

About KMMTTP

The KMMTTP, named after the Kaladan River that flows from the Chin state in Myanmar through India’s North Eastern state of Mizoram to merge into the Bay of Bengal.
Connecting Mizoram with Myanmar, through a multimodal transport corridor, would enable easy trade and transit transport movement in this region.
This project would allow the North East region, tenuously connected to the mainland through a 21 km Chicken’s Neck corridor in the upper West Bengal and flanked by Nepal and Bhutan, to be easily accessible.
The KMMTTP (with two modes of transport – waterway and roadways) moves through the Rakhine State and Chin State in Myanmar and Mizoram in India.
As planned, the KMMTTP would reduce the distance of transportation between Kolkata and Sittwe in Myanmar by shortening the route from 1,880 km via the Chicken’s Neck to 930 km.
The multimodal transportation includes cargo movement through three different modes viz. coastal shipping, inland waterway and road transport.

Components of Kaladan Multi-Modal Transit Transport Project

Construction of an integrated port and Inland Waterway Transport (IWT) terminal at Sittwe, including reclamation of land and dredging
Development of navigational channel along river Kaladan from Sittwe to Paletwa (158 km)
Construction of an Inland waterway — Highway trans-shipment terminal at Paletwa
Construction of seven IWT barges (each with a capacity of 300 tonnes) for transportation of cargo by waterway between Sittwe and Paletwa
Building a highway (110 km) from Paletwa to the India–Myanmar border (Zorinpui) in Mizoram.

Kaladan River

The Kaladan River is a river in eastern Mizoram State of India, and in Chin State and Rakhine State of western Myanmar.
The Kaladan River is called the Chhimtuipui River in India.
It forms the international border between India and Burma between 22° 47′ 10″ N (where its tributary, the Tiau River, joins it) and 22° 11′ 06″ N.
Kaladan was an entry point to Mizoram from the seaport of Sittwe in 1904.
Kaladan is Mizoram’s largest river and it flows through its southeastern region.