<span style="color: #222222;">Minister of State for Ports, Shipping and Waterways, Shantanu Thakur flagged off an inaugural shipment from Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port in Kolkata to operationalise the Sittwe Port in Myanmar. <br />''<br />''External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said in a tweet that the Sittwe port has been developed as part of the Kaladan Multi-Modal Transit Transport Project built under Indian grant assistance. India-Myanmar relations are rooted in shared historical, ethnic, cultural, and religious ties. India and Myanmar share a long land border of over 1600 km and a maritime boundary in the Bay of Bengal.</span><br />