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.