South China Morning Post
AsiaPac · 4 hrs ago
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India’s US$9 billion island megaport sharpens China’s ‘Malacca dilemma’
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India is developing a US$9 billion megaport on Great Nicobar island to create a major transport hub with transhipment facilities and an airport, a project with strategic implications for regional geopolitics and China's maritime concerns.
India’s US$9 billion island megaport sharpens China’s ‘Malacca dilemma’
On Great Nicobar, a remote island located closer to Indonesia than mainland India, New Delhi is embarking on one of its biggest developments in decades.
The US$9 billion project is intended to transform the country’s southernmost tip into a major transport hub comprising a transhipment port, an international airport and associated logistical facilities.
Spread across 166 sq km (64 square miles), the project in India’s Andaman and Nicobar archipelago is slated for completion over three decades,..
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