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First Cargo Movement on National Waterway – 2 (NW - 2)
November 3 , 2019
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- A landmark container cargo consignment will sail on inland waterways from Haldia Dock Complex (HDC) to the Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) terminal at Pandu in Guwahati on 4 November, 2019.
- The 12-15 days voyage will be an integrated Inland Water Transport (IWT) movement via
- National Waterway -1 (river Ganga)
- National Waterway - 97 (Sunderbans)
- Indo-Bangladesh Protocol (IBP) route and
- National Waterway - 2 (river Brahmaputra)
- This is the first ever containerised cargo movement on this IWT route i.e. NW-2.
About IBP
- The Protocol on Inland Water Transit and Trade (PIWTT) between India and Bangladesh was signed in 2018.
- It allows mutually beneficial arrangements for the use of their waterways for movement of goods between the two countries by vessels of both countries.
- The IBP route extends from Kolkata (India) on NW-1 to Silghat (Assam) on NW-2 (River Brahmaputra) and Karimganj (Assam) on NW-16 (River Barak).
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