Myanmar to build deep-sea port in western state

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YANGON, June 30 (Xinhua): Myanmar is planning to build a deep-sea port in Kyaukphyu, western coastal Rakhine state, to facilitate maritime trade with neighbouring countries, local traders said today.
The Kyaukphyu deep-sea port on the Maday Island in the state will be built by a financially strong private company, the Asia World, which has carried out survey at the project site recently, the traders added.
According to experts, the planned Kyaukphyu deep-sea port will serve as a transit trade centre for goods destined to port cities of Chittagong, Yangon and Kolkata.
Kyaukphyu also stands at a point on a proposed land route connecting southwestern China's Kunming in Yunnan province with Myanmar's Sittwe through Mandalay.