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^ Nice post, except the name calling at point b).
Also Neither country will use that deep port as a transit port as like Singapore.
In reality apart from Bangladesh, port of Sonadadia can only be used by India and totally unviable for any other country. But in Bangladesh there seems to be extreme opposition for anything that includes India, so Sittwe will be our major port for North-East India and it is getting completed very soon.
Sheikh Hasina has agreed to allow India to use its territory for transit. But the absence of proper roads makes the concession meaningless. And so India has been making plans without Bangladesh to secure access to its landlocked north-eastern states, via Myanmar. It is developing a deep-sea port in Sittwe, the capital of Rakhine state in Myanmar. The port is 500-odd km from Kolkata, Indias main port on the Bay of Bengal and part of Indias so-called Kaladan Multi-Modal Transit Transport Projecta gateway to Indias landlocked north-eastern states. Rather conveniently, Sittwe is also close to Myanmars massive Shwe gasfield. The idea will be to run a canal, highway and possibly a pipeline from Sittwe to a newly constructed river port in Myanmars Chin state, and then on to the border with the Indian state of Mizoram. The project is expected to become operational by mid-2013. And so Bangladesh looks likely to be left in its isolation.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2013/01/bangladesh-and-its-near-abroad