Essar hopes to complete work on Myanmar's Sittwe port by June.

Construction contractor Essar Projects Ltd. expects to complete by June 2014 the 'port-cum-inland waterway' part of an India-sponsored project in Myanmar.

The project is of critical economic and strategic importance to India, as it opens a new transport corridor between the North-East states and the rest of the country (and world) through Myanmar.

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