Key Points
New Delhi: From East to West, India today is spearheading major transnational transport corridors that will eventually link the Atlantic to the Pacific via Asia...
The Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government is pushing hard for these corridors the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEEC) initiative through the Arabian peninsula, the International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC) in the West to the trilateral highway in South East Asia and the Chennai-Vladivostok route to the East...
While IMEEC aims to connect India to Europe via the Arabian Peninsula through rail and sea links, INSTC conceptualised two decades ago spans 7,200 kilometres, encompassing ship, rail, and road routes connecting India through Iran and Central Asia to Russia..
Though IMEEC which seeks to connect India to the Gulf and Europe is a new venture, the INSTC was conceptualised in 2000, before China launched its ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2013...
A major project announced as a part of the PGII a few months later in September 2023 was the IMEEC a corridor connecting India to Europe via West Asia and offering an alternative route to the Suez Canal a known choke point to global trade...
