Freeing Commerce in Eastern India

By 2015, a US$214 million port project at the town of Sittwe, at the mouth of the Kaladan River on the Myanmar side of the Bay of Bengal, is expected to provide the 60 million people of landlocked far eastern India vital access to commerce by sea.

Sittwe, population 180,000, is the capital of the troubled Arakan Province, the scene of Buddhist-Rohingya …