Brahmaputra international cargo and National Waterway 2
Quick dive
- A barge carrying 540 metric tonnes of methanol left Dibrugarh’s Bogibeel Terminal for Pangaon port near Dhaka.
- The vessel is expected to travel about 768 km down the Brahmaputra to the India-Bangladesh border and then use the Indo-Bangladesh Protocol route for a total journey of about 1,300 km.
- The 891 km Sadiya-Dhubri stretch of the Brahmaputra was declared National Waterway 2 in 1988.
- The movement follows India-Bangladesh river-trade cooperation and recent customs and immigration facilities at Bogibeel and Pandu.
- exam_relevance: tests NW-2, protocol routes, Partition-era connectivity, multimodal logistics and India’s Northeast integration through an exact cargo, distance and chronology-based case study.
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