Haldia Jetty and Inland Terminal to be operational soon

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• Union Minister for Ports, Shipping & Waterways, and Ayush Shri Sarbananda Sonowal announced that the contract has been awarded for the Haldia inland waterway terminal in West Bengal.
• This will facilitate export-import and inland cargo movement to Pandu terminal in Guwahati connecting the northeast with Kolkata. 
• This will provide an alternative to the chicken neck route for easy and cost-effective movement of cargo to and from the northeast to the foreign countries and other states of India.
• This is a unique opportunity of using the sea and river route combinations (National Waterway 1 and National Waterway 2) via Kolkata port.

For more details on National Waterways kindly refer to the link below.