About Protocol on Inland Water Transit and Trade (PIWTT)

🔆About Protocol on Inland Water Transit and Trade (PIWTT)

✅In 1972, India and Bangladesh signed the Protocol on Inland Water Transit and Trade (PIWTT).

✅ It is a bilateral protocol connecting the inland waterways of India and Bangladesh for the transportation of goods and keeping their respective waterways navigable, while providing infrastructure facilities.

✅The protocol further states that both countries will mutually decide the proposed expenses; voyage permissions shall be taken at least four days prior to the actual journey; and the vessels shall share equal tonnage.

✅The India-Bangladesh Protocol Routes include parts of rivers Ganga, Hooghly, Brahmaputra, and Barak, and the Sundarbans

Note: In 2018, India and Bangladesh signed an agreement for inclusion of Dhubriin India and Pangaonin Bangladesh as new Ports of Call in PIWTT.