Re: [MTC Global] Chabahar Tripartite Masterstroke beats China-Pak Pact on Gwadar Port

Dear Sir, I wonder how we Indians can really benefit from the Chabahar Port development.
There is the big intervening territory of Pakistan ( most hostile neighbor). There is
going to be rail and road link to Herat to the North in Afghanistan ( again a land that
knows no rule of law) Our trade route to Central Asian republics of the old Soviet Union
passes through these badlands. The logistics of this trade seems to be complicated and
risk laden. The Iranians will bill us Ex Chabahar and then the loss involved in shipping
through these badlands will be India's burden.
The Chinese port project of Gwadar seems to reach China through the friendly territory of
Pakistan. They have much better protection of their materials imported from the Gwadar
terminals that ours from Chabahar. But having committed to the project we have to now
invest money into the project and try to make the most of it.
Cheers,
K.Paranjpe

On Sun, 05 Jun 2016 13:28:53 +0530 Govind Autee wrote
>After Chabahar, India eyeing Payra port in BangladeshPTI | Jun 3, 2016, 08.22 PM IST
MUMBAI: After bagging the strategically important Chabahar Port in Iran,
the government is looking eastwards and is in discussions with
Bangladesh to develop a similar facility in Payra.



India Ports Global, the joint venture between state-run JNPT and
Kandla Port for overseas ports, is interested in the expressions of
interest which have been invited for construction of Payra port in
Bangladesh, the Shipping Ministry said in a release today.
"...talks are on between our Foreign Ministry and them (Bangladesh).
Dhaka also wants us. We have sent a team there for studies," Union
Shipping Minister Nitin Gadkari told reporters, but did not disclose the
port's location.



A media report in February had said China had evinced keen interest
in building the Payra port. In what was taken as a reflection of the
growing Indo-Bangladeshi ties, Dhaka had cancelled the deal and was
about to award it to New Delhi.



The Narendra Modi government has been talking about an 'Act East'
policy, as against the previous regime's 'Look East' policy, and the
moves to build maritime infrastructure in Iran in the West and
Bangladesh in the East seem to be part of that approach.
The move can also be construed as a reply to the aggressive play by
China, which is developing a port in Colombo and Gwadar in Pakistan.


"The Shipping Ministry is closely
following the developments in regard to the Payra port so as to secure
our national and strategic interests," the release added.



It can be noted that China has
embarked on what is referred to as 'string of pearls' strategy, under
which it is creating such assets across the circumference of the Indian
Peninsula in the Indian Ocean Rim region.

Gadkari's comments come days after New Delhi secured a deal to build the
strategic Chabahar port in Iran with an initial capex commitment of US$
500 million, which will help serve India's interests in the Gulf
country coming out of sanctions, and in the broader region as well.



The minister today said an immediate
benefit of developing the Chabahar port will be cheaper gas
availability, which can help reduce the urea subsidy bill by Rs 45,000
crore.



On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 11:06 AM, Govind Autee wrote:
Barely five months after the US and the European Union lifted economic sanctions on Iran,
Narendra Modi has pulled off something of a masterstroke.
On May 22, the Indian prime minister flew down to Tehran and the next day signed 12
agreements, including a deal to develop Iran's Chabahar port. India will spend $500
million on the project, with a plan to invest an additional $16 billion in the Chabahar
free trade zone.

Chabahar is much closer to Gujarat on India's west
coast. "The distance between Kandla (a port in Gujarat) and the Chabahar
port is less than the distance between New Delhi and Mumbai," India's
transport minister Nitin Gadkari said in Tehran on May 23,
"and so what this agreement does is to enable us quick movement of
goods first to Iran and then onwards to Afghanistan and Russia through a
new rail and road link."






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