Comment / Nicobar: India's long-shot transhipment bet

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By Gavin van Marle

04/12/2023

The Indian subcontinent has always been a great place to go elephant watching, and recently there have been excited reports of sightings of a rare breed – the white elephant.

Seen it before

This is represented this week by the utterly bonkers plan outlined by India’s shipping minister Shri Sarbananda Sonowal to build a $5bn container transhipment port in the Nicobar Islands.

I’m going to stick my neck out here – the project is a turkey and it won’t, or at least it shouldn’t, ...

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