India is trying to open up more direct trade corridors with Central Asia. Two of the country’s largest state-owned ports have enlisted the help of a private firm to help develop Iran’s southeastern port of Chabahar. According to media reports from March 3, the Jawaharlal Nehru Port, which is south of Mumbai and is India’s busiest container port, will develop loading facilities in Chabahar. Kandla Port, which is located in western India’s Gujarat state and is India’s biggest cargo handler by volume, will help establish dry bulk handling facilities at Chabahar.

Iran has been increasingly interested in developing its trade infrastructure; earlier the same day, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s international affairs adviser, Ali Akbar Velayati, called for a trade corridor between Chabahar and the Russian city of St. Petersburg.

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